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

Meador Inge meadori at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 11:36:23 EST 2015


On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 3:58 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>
wrote:

On 21.12.15 23:57, Steve Dower wrote:
>
>> Was Py_MOVEREF (or MOVE_REF) ever suggested?
>>
>
> This would be nice name. The macro moves the ownership. But I think it's
> too late. Otherwise we'll never finish the bikeshedding.


FWIW, I like this name the best.  It is increasingly popular for languages
to talk about moving ownership (e.g. move semantics in C++, Rust, etc...).

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# Meador
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