Walter Dörwald wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>
>>Fascinating ideas in this thread!
>>
>>I spent some time blogging about this on artima:
>>http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=155123
>>
>>I have to write my slides for a talk about Py3K later today, but I'll
>>be back. In the mean time I've rejected PEPs 245 and 246 in
>>expectation of something better that's imminent!
>
>
> What's still missing IMHO is a way for an adapter to defer to the next
> adapter in the chain, i.e. something like:
Sounds like next_method in generic functions, which is an area of
generic functions we haven't touched upon (but which seem important). I
think in RuleDispatch it goes like:
@foo.when(...)
def incremented_foo(next_method, arg1, arg2):
return next_method(arg1, arg2) + 1
By using a first argument named "next_method" you tell the generic
function machinery to pass in this special object, which acts like the
original generic function ("foo" in this case) but ignores the current
method.
I assume there won't be very positive reaction here to behavior based on
an argument name. But ignoring that aspect, it's a somewhat important
feature of typical generic function implementations, and very similar to
super.
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Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org
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