On Jan 7, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Antoine Pitrou solipsis@pitrou.net wrote:
On mar., 2014-01-07 at 13:18 -0800, Eli Bendersky wrote:
Hello,
Does it really make sense to introduce large amounts of code churn after the release of 3.4 beta2? It started innocently enough, but now it seems that the whole implementation is being reconsidered (Antoine's email to pydev). This doesn't look like something we should be doing so late in the release process.
Are we really that much in need of convert-to-clinic *now*?
I guess the question is: are there large enough benefits to be reaped for risking the release (a bit)? There's no question Argument Clinic can bring interesting benefits, it's just a question of timing.
Let me play the devil’s advocate here: how much do we risk in future maintainability costs if we move to Argument Clinic in Python 3.5 and leave large parts of Python 3.4 uncovered by it?
I mean that we can get some ugly diffs between code using Argument Clinic and manual argument parsing.
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