[Python-Dev] [numpy wishlist] Interpreter support for temporary elision in third-party classes

[Paul Moore]

On 5 June 2014 22:47, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> To make sure I understand correctly, you're suggesting something like
> adding a new set of special method slots, __te_add__, __te_mul__,
> etc.

I wasn't thinking in that much detail, TBH. I'm not sure adding a
whole set of new slots is sensible for such a specialised case. I
think I was more assuming that the special method implementations
could use an alternative calling convention, METH_STACK in place of
METH_VARARGS, for example. That would likely only be viable for types
implemented in C.

But either way, it may be more complicated than the advantages would justify...
Paul