Bob Ippolito wrote: >> What do you mean by "open classes"? Python >> classes already seem pretty open to me, by >> the standards of other languages! > > I'm guessing he's talking about being like Ruby or Objective-C where > you can add methods to any other class in the runtime.
wouldn't a standard multiargument dispatch mechanism solve this, for most (all?) practical use cases. (and while we're at it, wouldn't a standard multiargument dispatch be nice replacement for the instance-oriented lookup we're using today? dispatching on a single value is so last century ;-) </F> _______________________________________________ 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
