On 9/16/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > It is possible to compromise the integrity of a built-in type by > > subclassing it if the type wasn't carefully written to expect > > subclassing. > > Disallowing subclassing in Python may make sense, but > it seems unreasonable not to allow subclassing by > consenting C code that is careful not to compromise > any integrity. > > Maybe there should be two flags for this instead of > just one?
AFAIK there's nothing stopping you from subclassing in C. I thought we were talking about Python though. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
