On 5/15/07, Collin Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/14/07, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 5/14/07, Collin Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > You may like adding the extra complexity
> > > and indirection to the VM necessary to support
> > > issubclass()/isinstance() overriding, but I don't.
> >
> > Have you looked at Guido's issubclass()/isinstance() patch
> > (http://bugs.python.org/1708353)? I'd hardly say that 34 lines of C
> > code is substantial "extra complexity".
>
> This is what I don't understand: ABCs require changing the VM, roles
> don't; all that change buys you is the ability to spell "performs()"
> as "isinstance()".
Sorry, I can't really respond to this until you give me some idea what
your implementation is. You keep saying that roles don't require
changing the VM, but I don't know what they *do* involve changing. So
I can't judge how different that is from allowing isinstance() to be
overloaded.
STeVe
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