Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 246, Feedback Request

2005-01-16 Thread Guido van Rossum
- protocol means any object, usually a type or class or interface, which guides the construction of an adapter Then what do we call the abstract *concept* of a protocol? - adaptee-class refers to the adaptee's class Please make it explicit that this is a.__class__, not type(a). -

[Python-Dev] PEP 246, Feedback Request

2005-01-15 Thread Clark C. Evans
I started to edit the PEP, but found that we really don't have any consensus on a great many items. The following is a bunch of topics, and a proposed handling of those topics. A bulk of this comes from a phone chat I had with Alex this past afternoon, and other items come from my understanding

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 246, Feedback Request

2005-01-15 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 11:04 PM 1/15/05 -0500, Clark C. Evans wrote: topic: a glossary overview: It seems that we are having difficulty with words that have shifting definitions. The next PEP edit will need to add a glossary that nails down some meanings of these words. Following are a few