[Python-Dev] Changing Clinic's output

[Larry Hastings]

On 01/14/2014 01:38 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> FWIW, I think everyone should place a lot of weight on
> Serhiy's comments and suggestions.  His reasoning is
> clear and compelling.  And the thoughts are all soundly
> based on extensive experience with the clinic's effect on
> the C source code.

One more bit of anecdotal evidence.  I suggest that I have easily the 
most extensive experience with working with Clinic.  Serhiy filed his 
first patch converting to Clinic nine days ago; I've been working on 
Clinic for about eighteen months, on and off.  And I got used to living 
with the "sprinkling" approach a long long time ago. I no longer ever 
mistake generated code for handwritten code, and I don't ever modify the 
generated text.  It's basically fine.

This is not to dismiss Serhiy's observations.  Nor to say that my 
experiences will be universal.  Nor indeed to suggest that learning to 
live with Clinic's out as it exists today is a desirable skill. I merely 
suggest that if we didn't modify the output of Clinic it might be 
survivable.

Cheers,


//arry/

p.s. " You get used to it. I...I don't even see the code. All I see is 
blonde, brunette, red-head. Hey, you uh... want a drink?"
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