James> This is only a halfway fix to DRY, and it really only fixes the
James> less important half. The important problem with super is that it
James> encourages people to write incorrect code by requiring that you
James> explicitly specify an argument list. Since calling super with any
James> arguments other than the exact same arguments you have received
James> is nearly always wrong, requiring that the arglist be specified
James> is an attractive nuisance.
Since the language doesn't require that a subclassed method take the same
parameters as the base class method, you can't assume that it does. super()
should simply mean "call with no arguments".
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