On PEP 322 (ireverse)

[Aahz]

In article <VHQob.78295$e5.2907888 at news1.tin.it>,
Alex Martelli  <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>I think one needs *more* work to add an attribute to a C-coded function:
>it needs to be made into a different type.  To add a classmethod to a type
>one only needs to supply the classmethod flag in one's C sources -- hard
>to see how that might be more troublesome...?

Someone claimed that making iter() a type constructor would not be
backward-compatible.  This certainly would be.
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