Talin wrote: > It means that > now the VM gets to decide what methods are special and what methods > aren't.
Further to that, the VM still gets to decide whether any given special method gets a type slot. But the SPECIAL flag is needed to say that you intend the method to be *used* as a special method, which is something you can't tell just from the name (as long as there exist special methods like next() that don't use __xxx__ names). BTW, another advantage of all this is that it provides a lot more flexibility in the overall approach to implementing the type object. For example, we might decide to move the type slots into a separate memory block, so that the type struct could be extended by subclasses in the same way as other types. -- 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
