Daniel Russel wrote: > Another source of excess checks in the IMP code is the decorators.
True.
> I propose adding constructors to the decorators from Particle* to > express the third.
I'm not sure I follow you - you want to add extra methods to Particle? It doesn't seem like that would scale - external modules could add their own decorators, and obviously they can't modify the Particle base class.
> The constructors would have an assertion that they > particles have the correct attributes (but this assertion would go > away in non debugged code). Thoughts?
If you replace checks with assertions, the Python interface would need to have some checking in it, because we don't want to crash the interpreter if somebody has a typo in their script and uses the wrong decorator.
Ben