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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Aug 29, 2016, 17:06 Terry Reedy <<a href="mailto:tjreedy@udel.edu">tjreedy@udel.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 8/29/2016 5:38 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:<br>
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> who objected to the new field did either for memory ("it adds another<br>
> pointer to the struct that won't be typically used"), or for conceptual<br>
> reasons ("the code object is immutable and you're proposing a mutable<br>
> field"). The latter is addressed by not exposing the field in Python and<br>
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Am I correct is thinking that you will also not add the new field as an<br>
argument to PyCode_New?<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Correct.</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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 > clearly stating that code should never expect the field to be filled.<br>
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I interpret this as "The only code that should access the field should<br>
be code that put something there."<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Yep, seems like a reasonable rule to follow.</div><div><br></div><div>-brett</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Terry Jan Reedy<br>
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