Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment:

Adding my -1.   My experience was that these macros impaired my ability to 
maintain the code and interfered with useful patterns like delaying all decrefs 
until an object was in a consistent state.

While I know that name was bikeshedded quite a bit, the outcome is rather 
unintuitive:  https://twitter.com/raymondh/status/930535938459025408

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nosy: +rhettinger

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