> > I don't know anything by CLOS. > > I'll drop off a copy of the book on Monday. Lord knows we have > zillions of extra copies floating around PARC.
I'll still drop off a copy (of Common Lisp the Language, version 2), but there's no need to wait. It's on the Web at http://www.supelec.fr/docs/cltl/clm/node260.html. See in particular the "change-class" operation at http://www.supelec.fr/docs/cltl/clm/node305.html. I think I'm still confused (happens a lot :-) about our method namespace discussion. It seems to me that Python's method namespaces work pretty much the same way that CLOS's do, already. That is, you don't "clobber" an existing method in a base class when you define a new method by the same name in a derived class; you just mask it. The base class' method is still there, and can still be called explicitly. Bill _______________________________________________ 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