On 01/16/2014 11:36 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Yury Selivanov
<yselivanov.ml@gmail.com> wrote:

If we keep it strictly declarative, then, at least, we’ll have this
possibility in the future.

Sounds like a pretty unlikely scenario. Why would you implement clinic in C?

We'll never reimplement Argument Clinic in C. I could list many reasons for this. Suffice to say, I'm not doing it, and I doubt anyone else would ever step up to the plate and try it.

And, "form follows function". It's a bad idea to limit Argument Clinic's features today based on what might be inconvenient someday in some hypothetical rewrite in C. Argument Clinic should be maximally useful, right now.

/arry