On 27/04/22 11:07 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
You're saying that it's somehow different when the original dev intends for it, and that that makes it "not monkeypatching". I dispute that, and I consider that the feature would be helpful whether the original dev meant for it or not.
The forward declaration and continuation both have to be specially marked, so you *can't* use it for monkeypatching.
Would subclassing therefore become legitimate if the original author intended for it, and be called "method stealing" if it were not?
You seem to think I have something against monkeypatching. Personally I don't, but someone else seems to as they objected that they don't want monkeypatching to be encouraged. I was just pointing out that (1) I don't think it's the same thing as monkeypatching and (2) you can't use it to modify an existing class in an ad-hoc manner anyway. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/6HOFAR3TKR62YFPUZ4OIBY5DJBNV374V/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
