On December 16, 2015 8:12:47 AM CST, Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote: >I'm bringing this up again, since the results of the previous poll did >not give an unambiguous result. Related links: [1], [2], [3], [4]. > >Let me remind you that we are talking about adding the following macro. > >It is needed for safe replacement links. For now there is at least one >open crash report that can be solved with this macro [5] (I think there > >is yet one, but can't find it just now). And 50 potential bugs for >which >we just still do not have a reproducer. > >#define Py_XXX(ptr, value) \ > { \ > PyObject *__tmp__ = ptr; \ > ptr = new_value; \ > Py_DECREF(__tmp__); \ > } > >The problem is only in the macro name. There are objections against any > >proposed name, and no one name gained convincing majority. > >Here are names gained the largest numbers of votes plus names proposed >during polling. > >1. Py_SETREF >2. Py_DECREF_REPLACE >3. Py_REPLACE >4. Py_SET_POINTER >5. Py_SET_ATTR >6. Py_REPLACE_REF >
5 kinda sucks, since this has virtually nothing to do with attributes. 3 sounds like it does an operation on the object itself. 4 sounds stupid. So: 1. +0 2. +0.5 3. -1 4. -1 5. -1 6. +1 >Please put your vote (a floating number from -1 to 1 including) for >every of proposed name. You also can propose new name. > Py_RESET? Like C++'s shared_ptr::reset: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/shared_ptr/reset. > >[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-May/079862.html >[2] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/145346 >[3] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/145974 >[4] http://bugs.python.org/issue20440 >[5] http://bugs.python.org/issue24103 > >_______________________________________________ >Python-Dev mailing list >Python-Dev@python.org >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >Unsubscribe: >https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/rymg19%40gmail.com -- Sent from my Nexus 5 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com