Guido van Rossum wrote: > So let's call it the "Swiss Army Knife > (...Not)" API design pattern.
IIRC, this is one of the design principles which inspired Lisp mixins. The idea was that different interfaces should be separated into different classes. If you needed a class which combined them, you'd just mix two superclasses together. Bill _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com