> As a language, no. As a practice, *I* certainly would discourage it > except when used internally as an implementation detail.
I agree that the DP (design pattern) generation is making better sense around when to use and when not to use subclassing. O'Reilly's 'Head First Into Design Patterns' is a good example. I plugged it in my Saturday Academy class, along with TAOCP, NKS, and Zelle's Python intro. Here're some negative comments about this book that I liked, to help us stay well rounded: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000380.html Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
