[Python-Dev] Proposed: The Great Argument Clinic Conversion Derby

[Nick Coghlan]

On 6 Jan 2014 05:54, "Larry Hastings" <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
>
> On 01/05/2014 01:49 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
>>
>> But I very much upset by the fact that the generated code is written
mixed with written manually. It is difficult to navigate (list of symbols
now contains three times more names), makes it difficult to read and
provokes error (editing the generated code). It would be better if the
generated code was written in separate files.
>
>
> I had that working at one point.  Guido said no, keep it all in one
file.  I'm flexible but first you'd have to convince him.

It's also not something we're stuck with forever - we can start with it
inline (which has the advantage of keeping all the code in the same place),
and later move to having the helpers in a separate file included from the
implementation file if we decide it makes sense to do so.

This was discussed a fair bit last language summit (and the day after
between me, Guido and Larry), and the thing I like about the current
approach is that a C coder should be able to understand the generated code
*as C code* without needing to know anything about Argument Clinic and
without needing to hunt through other files to find where the generated
pieces are defined.

As Terry noted, even if we just get "help(name)" working properly for the
builtins, I'll count that as a major win.

Cheers,
Nick.

>
> Cheers,
>
>
> /arry
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