[Python-Dev] PEP 286: Please comment

[Jack Jansen]

On dinsdag, maart 12, 2002, at 10:09 , Martin v. Loewis wrote:

> I put PEP 286, "Enhanced Argument Tuples", on
>
> http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0286.html

I'm +1 on the idea (of course:-), but there's a couple of things 
I miss in the PEP:
- I assume 'failobjects' are deallocated on failure, not success, yes?
- I miss a rationale (some use cases would be nice)
- it's nowhere explained how the ...Memory() calls would be implemented.
- Would the interpreter mainloop always create argument tuples 
where it now uses normal tuples? Is this a method flag? What's 
the cost of conversion (or of using ArgumentTuples in stead of 
tuples in general)? Issues with apply()?
- What would happen to calls that still use normal tuples? 
There's a lot of callback code out there...
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