On May 12, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

> Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be an idea (well, I suppose it's too late now, just
>> wondering what you think) to call it __cadd__ instead then?
>
> If I were designing Pyrex over again, I might do
> something like that. But then people would expect
> __add__/__radd__ etc. to be emulated as well, and
> that would be very complicated to support.
>
> It would also be rather inefficient.

I think at this point it would be too hard of a break with backwards  
compatibility to change. This does give support to supporting a "pure  
python" mode (e.g. for .py files) that would emulate the __add__/ 
__radd__ as well as allow stuff like "cdef = 3."

- Robert
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