Against PEP 240

[Robin Becker]

In article <9f178j08af at enews2.newsguy.com>, Alex Martelli
<aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes
>"Cameron Laird" <claird at starbase.neosoft.com> wrote in message
>news:0E0E06297253FE1B.D13D6C3BAEE41AD8.4A273FCB042833CB at lp.airnews.net...
>    ...
>> Let's be precise:  extensions that pass float-
>> ing point data will all be broken.  I don't
>
>...how?
>
>> regard broken extensions lightly; I know what
>> a cost it can be to reassemble all the parts
>> just to recreate what one had before.  Do you
>> agree there'd be value in adding a coda to the
>> PEP about how to rewrite extensions?  Shall
>
>What about just reminding extension writers to
>use PyFloat_AsDouble and emphatically _NOT_ the
>PyFloat_AS_DOUBLE macro?  What am I missing?
>
speed; some matrix algorithms are say order n if I have an extra layer
of order n caused by additional input checks some will get demented and
cry out particularly if as in some rather strange economic models the
algorithm is the inner loop with 5 or 6 loops around it.
-- 
Robin Becker