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Author pitrou
Recipients Arfrever, Trundle, benjamin.peterson, daniel.urban, docs@python, eric.araujo, eric.snow, meador.inge, ncoghlan, pitrou, rhettinger, scoder, skrah
Date 2013-10-25.16:25:21
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> > To be clear: the problem is with CPython calling the concrete APIs when
> > it shouldn't, rather than with the concrete APIs not behaving properly.
> 
> The boilerplate required to use them correctly renders them broken in my
> view, particularly when they silently corrupt internal subclass state when
> misused instead of throwing an exception.

IMO the boilerplate should actually be included inside the abstract
APIs, so as to automatically enable optimized shortcuts when possible.
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2013-10-25 16:25:21pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, rhettinger, ncoghlan, scoder, benjamin.peterson, eric.araujo, Arfrever, Trundle, skrah, meador.inge, daniel.urban, docs@python, eric.snow
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