[Twisted-Python] reactor.callLater(0,) should not be an idiom [PATCH]

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:10:23 -0500, Moshe Zadka <twisted at moshez.org> wrote:
> This patch touches many places, so I wanted to run it by the list
> first.

Why should this not be an idiom?

Neither utils.schedule(...) nor callLater(0,...) is particularly obviously
named unless you read the docstring, and utils.schedule adds a bunch of
getattr/python function call stuff to the cases where it's used for apparently
no reason.  Not to mention the fact that it provides a new way to write Twisted
code that is not backwards compatible with older versions of Twisted.  This
also does not add any functionality.

So, let's review, in order of importance.  This patch:

    * fixed no bugs
    * added no features
    * touched a lot of code
    * destabilized a core Twisted API (in a fowards-compatible but not
      backwards-compatible way) in that it implies callLater(0...) is
      deprecated
    * made a very basic and frequently-used idiom slightly less efficient

Most of all, it provides two ways of doing the exact same thing, and I
generally think that the TIMTOWTDI philosophy is awful.

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