{Guido, to Scott Gilbert]
> It seems we're still in the same boat. It would be saner to change
> buffer slices to return buffer objects, except for backward
> compatibility. I was hoping to hear from someone who uses buffer
> objects and knows that this would break his code.
Raymond did a survey on c.l.py, asking anyone who used buffer objects at
*all* to speak up. IIRC, he got no replies. On Python-Dev, apart from
musing whether they might conceivably use them, the only person who
eventually said they actually used them was Marc-Andre. Fredrik pressed for
details, but we haven't seen any concrete use cases. In the absence of the
latter, it's impossible to guess what would be backward compatible for MAL's
purposes.
> ...
> Maybe we should do something stronger, and deprecate the buffer type
> altogether.
I told everyone you forgot the essay you wrote suggesting this the last time
this rose above everyone's pain threshold. It's a comfort to know that my
channeling powers have not diminished with exponentially advancing age
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