Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Jun 7 02:37:14 CEST 2014

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Julian Taylor wrote:
> tp_can_elide receives two objects and returns one of three values:
> * can work inplace, operation is associative
> * can work inplace but not associative
> * cannot work inplace

Does it really need to be that complicated? Isn't it
sufficient just to ask the object potentially being
overwritten whether it's okay to overwrite it?
I.e. a parameterless method returning a boolean.

-- 
Greg

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