On 4/6/06, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But overloaded methods as they exist now have exactly the same > expression as non-overloaded methods, all the machinery (mro walking > etc.) being hidden from the programmer.
What type of overloading are you referring to? The way I think about it, Python doesn't *have* overloading. Perhaps you're thinking of overriding? Totally different beast! > On the contrary, this new "overloaded function" mechanism requires the > explicit use of a special decorator to specify that the function can be > overloaded, and another special decorator to specify that we are > currently overloading a function. Thus you would be referring to two > different programming schemes with the same word. It's confusing IMO. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
