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Python's Guido van Rossum Steps Down

posted by martyb on Friday July 13 2018, @12:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the pass-it-on dept.

canopic jug writes:

On a python developers' mailing list for the core developers, Python Committers, Benevolent Dictator for Life Guido van Rossum has announced that he is stepping down effective immediately and with out appointing a successor.

Now that PEP 572 is done, I don't ever want to have to fight so hard for a
PEP and find that so many people despise my decisions.

I would like to remove myself entirely from the decision process. I'll
still be there for a while as an ordinary core dev, and I'll still be
available to mentor people -- possibly more available. But I'm basically
giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL, and you all will be on
your own.

After all that's eventually going to happen regardless -- there's still
that bus lurking around the corner, and I'm not getting younger... (I'll
spare you the list of medical issues.)

I am not going to appoint a successor.

[...] I'll still be here, but I'm trying to let you all figure something out for
yourselves. I'm tired, and need a very long break.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday July 14 2018, @09:35AM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 14 2018, @09:35AM (#707014) Journal

    If you haven't had any template metaprogramming experience, it will take you some time to get what's happening here. If this is the case:
    - SFINAE [cppreference.com]
    - see <type_traits> [cppreference.com]

    namespace detail {

    // SFINAE check for a method named `PostProcess`
    template <typename, typename T>
    struct has_PostProcess { // error case
        static_assert(
            std::integral_constant::value,
            "Second template parameter needs to be a function type."
        );
    };

    // specialization. Looking for a method named PostProcess declared by type X with rettype and args
    template <typename X, typename Ret, typename... Args>
    struct has_PostProcess<X, Ret(Args...)> {
    private:
        // constexpr data member - named `check` - of type function, will be used T has a PostProcess method
        // with matching arguments. The return type is either std::true_type or std::false_type
        template <typename T>
        static constexpr auto check(T*) ->
            typename std::is_same().PostProcess(std::declval()...)),
                Ret
            >::type;
        // generic version of the check data member if the more specialized check
        // is not matched
        template <typename>
        static constexpr std::false_type check(...);
        // Realize that, by SFINAE, only one of the above definition of `check` will prevail.

        // this says "Would I be to call the 'check' function, what would be the return type"?
        using response=decltype(check<X>(static_cast<X*>(nullptr)));
    public:
        // the constexpre value will be true (X does have a PostProcess method matching the required signature)
        // or false otherwise.
        static constexpr bool value=response::value;
    };

    }// namespace detail

    Can you manage from here?

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  • (Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Saturday July 14 2018, @03:55PM (2 children)

    by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Saturday July 14 2018, @03:55PM (#707154) Homepage Journal

    Wow thanks again! Yeah that's beautiful, I just need a pointer really. I talked a bit with a friend and he introduced me to the type traits but said he had never done specialization. Thanks again! I will now explode my head.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 14 2018, @05:35PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 14 2018, @05:35PM (#707216)

      > I just need a pointer really.

      Here you go: std::unique_ptr

      :D

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday July 14 2018, @11:05PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 14 2018, @11:05PM (#707365) Journal

      Ah, shit, there are a few place where I missed to &lt; the <.

      //...
              // constexpr data member - named `check` - of type function, will be used T has a PostProcess method
              // with matching arguments. The return type is either std::true_type or std::false_type
              template
              static constexpr auto check(T*) ->
                      typename std::is_same<
                          decltype(std::declval<T>().PostProcess(std::declval<Args>()...)),
                          Ret
                      >::type;

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