[Python-ideas] Including elementary mathematical functions in the python data model

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Sep 26 14:34:06 CEST 2010


On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> Couple that with the extra function call overhead (since these
>> wouldn't have real typeslots) and it still seems like a less than
>> stellar idea.
>>
>> As another use case for solid, efficient generic function support
>> though... great idea :)
>
> At the cost of even more execution overhead? :)

I did put that "efficient" in there for a reason! Now, I'm not saying
anything about how *reasonable* that idea is, but I can dream ;)

Cheers,
Nick.

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