[Python-Dev] New poll about a macro for safe reference replacing

[Martin Panter]

On 16/12/2015, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here are names gained the largest numbers of votes plus names proposed
> during polling.
>
> 1. Py_SETREF
+0. I can live with it, but SET sounds like a complement to CLEAR, or
that it ignores the old value.

> 2. Py_DECREF_REPLACE
+0.5

> 3. Py_REPLACE
+1. Fairly obvious what it does.

> 4. Py_SET_POINTER
-1
> 5. Py_SET_ATTR
-1 ** -1. What’s the attribute name?

> 6. Py_REPLACE_REF
+0.5

Ryan’s Py_RESET: -1, it sounds too much like CLEAR