Stefan Krah added the comment:
Jim Jewett <[email protected]> wrote:
> (1) The first several lines ( "/* pymacro.h */" until "/* could go into a
> separate header file */" ) would not be written at all, and are just there to
> help reviewers understand.
Yes, they should ultimately go into Include/pymacro.h.
> (2) The "#define OS_STAT_DOC ..." line is the docstring, and would be
> needed, but could easily go into a separate header file, like os_stat__doc.h.
> For something like cdecimal, there might be only a single _cdecimal__doc.h
> containing all the docstrings. There might even be a build switch that (at a
> minimum) replaced anything from those __doc.h files with "" for
> space-constrained builds.
Yes, it's supposed to be the main part of the docstring. The docstring header
containing the function signature would be autogenerated.
> (3) The human-maintained code would be the DSL between "/*[preprocessor]"
> and "[preprocessor]*/".
Yes.
> (4) The lines between "[preprocessor]*/" and "/*[preprocessor
> end:f3e6b328245207c240825782d908d3ff3a9c11c0]*/" would NOT be written or
> maintained by a human, but WOULD be checked into hg for the benefit builders
> without the argument-clinic tool.
Yes, all that code would be generated by clinic.py.
> (5) The only C code written or maintained by a human (or another macro
> system) would be the last 5 lines (the system call, the path cleanup, and the
> return).
Correct.
> If I'm correct, then your proposal boils down to
>
> (1) Allow (require?) the function-level docstring to be defined somewhere
> else, possibly in another file.
Yes.
> (2) Change the DSL
> (2a) Get rid of function flags? (Not sure this is workable)
I didn't intend to but you're right, they were missing.
> (2b) Replace the (previously proposed) parameter declarations with literal
> C code forming an array of [parameter kind,
> array-of-setup-instructions-and-or-magically-named-variable-settings]
Regarding the DSL: I wanted to change the syntax, not the functionality.
Unfortunately, as Antoine pointed out, I didn't get it quite right.
(2b): Perhaps I misunderstand, but the snippets of literal C code are also
present in Larry's original:
/*[clinic]
os.stat -> stat result
path_t path = PATH_T_INITIALIZE("stat", 0, 1);
required
converter=path_converter
int dir_fd = DEFAULT_DIR_FD;
default=None
converter=OS_STAT_DIR_FD_CONVERTER
keyword-only
int follow_symlinks = 1;
default=True
types=bool
[clinic]*/
The motivation for trying to change the DSL is that I'd like to see
a) something that looks more like a C declaration, b) something that
is easily compressible vertically and c) some visual hints that
subdivide the declaration into sections.
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