On 5/21/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm confused as to why nobody seems to have noticed my proposal or > prototype. So far my speculation is that it's outside of most people's > ability to perceive, because it moots all the things they're arguing > about. That is, it makes everything way too easy for anybody to pay > attention to it. :)
Possibly because there were a number of prototypes around at the time, with varying capabilities? It was pretty hard to keep track of which was which, and this one obviously slipped through the cracks (that's certainly true for me - possibly I assumed your comments referred to RuleDispatch, rather than a new prototype). My feeling is that the whole generic function discussion lost momentum at the point where it became clear that: (a) Simple implementations weren't too hard to build as library code, and (b) Using them pervasively was a significant paradigm shift, and people weren't sure about that. Maybe just having a single "blessed" implementation of a function overloading module in the stdlib (even in the 2.x series) would be the best place to start. With a bit more real-world experience, it would be easier to see if there was call for integrating the concept more deeply into the core. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
