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

[Random832]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> writes:
> Avoiding those misleading associations is a good argument in favour of
> Py_REPLACE over Py_SETREF - they didn't occur to me before casting my
> votes, and I can definitely see them causing confusion in the future.
>
> So perhaps the combination that makes the most sense is to add
> Py_REPLACE (uses Py_DECREF on destination) & Py_XREPLACE (uses
> Py_XDECREF on destination) to the existing Py_CLEAR?

Is there a strong reason to have an X/plain pair? Py_CLEAR
doesn't seem to have one.  This wasn't a subject of the poll.