-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 13, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> However, more people are under the impression that interface > testing is > safe and pure and smell-free, so there's more of a barrier to > overcome for > them to learn why it's wrong, without them first getting bitten -- > either > by their own code or somebody else's. Phillip, could you sum the argument up as this: being against interface testing as just a fancy isinstance() test, but that adaptation and/or generics is a better way to go because the former is a LBYL pattern while the latter is a Just Do It pattern. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRfbfanEjvBPtnXfVAQImlgP/bZguuw5GhZsV/nXOaaivrISAaaQN7PCX MYclQdI1R38hJCZSrHpDzoyTAbY+uMwuoCLSjW33f6oVNStspUb3weIJnx3fcYb4 NXTAZhs7VQ5oDcD0Fpy1zTkQ9tn9sCIomWNcWQCQG0DRJ+biwqNqG39FqeS9lsEV pp2sTunxtIU= =MgHy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
