Guido van Rossum wrote: > I fear I will miss the class as a convenient focus for > related functionality.
I have the same feeling. I get the impression that generic functions work okay in a language designed around them from the beginning. But adding them belatedly to a language built around classes and methods would give Too Many Ways To Do It. Another thing I don't like about generic functions is their comefromish nature. You know that an implementation of a method for some given type is going to be defined in one of a few easily-found places, but an implementation of a generic function for that type could be anywhere in the program. Or maybe that's just another way of stating your "classes as a focus of functionality" argument. In any case, from a software engineering viewpoint it seems bad, for the same reasons that monkeypatching is generally considered undesirable. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
