[C++-sig] object, handle<>, .ptr(), PyObject*

[Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve]

Consider these fragments from the latest CVS:

template <class T>
class handle
{
    // ...
    T* get() const;
    // ...
};

  class object : // ...
  {
      // ...
      handle<> const& ptr() const;
      // ...
  };

To a novice it will be very confusing that object::ptr() returns
a handle<>. I'd expect that ptr() must be PyObject*, but in fact
another .get() is required to obtain that.

I'd find it significantly less misleading of we had object::hdl().

Ralf


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