[Cython] [Pyrex] Proposed change to behaviour of "not None"

[Greg Ewing]

Hoyt Koepke wrote:

> It strikes me that decorators would be a natural way of
> handling this

I don't think so, because the None/not None distinction is
a decision that needs to be made individually for each
parameter -- it's not a property of the function as a
whole.

 > If part of the
> reason for switching the default is that writing "not None" for every
> argument is awkward

No, that's not part of the reason. The reason is that the
current default easily leads people to write buggy code.

-- 
Greg