Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
Joel de Guzman writes:
Ah, yes, and I will forever be against the pointer interface.
Zen of Python: ... There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. ...
I can quote the whole thing any time of the day, but it hardly justifies the existence of 'get', let alone its "obviousness" ;).
Ya, hmm, well, get() (and get_pointer()) there in the proposal is a mistake (or else the pointer interface is.. clearly both shouldn't coexist) FWIW, I wrote the 2 proposals in a high rush over one weekend 'cause I had no idea there was a dateline until Thorstten told me about it, just a few days earlier.. There were a couple of loose ends in both of them... as you can see. Best -- Fernando Cacciola SciSoft http://fcacciola.50webs.com/