Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Wed Jan 18 05:48:00 EST 2017

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> On 18 Jan 2017, at 02:16, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2017-01-18 1:59 GMT+01:00 INADA Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com>:
>> I think mixing two forms is OK only if new form is used only at bottom.
>> (like keyword arguments are allowed after all positional arguments in
>> Python function calling)
>> 
>> Complete rewriting makes diff huge.  And there is PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT already.
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> I'm in favor of replacing all long list of fields with the /* tp_xxx
> */ comments to use designated initializers. It would allow to remove a
> lot of "0,     /* tp_xxx */" lines and make the code much more
> readable! It should help to prevent bugs when the code is modified.

I agree. I’ve done this in my own projects and that made the code a lot easier to read.

Ronald

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