On Apr 29, 2007, at 9:07 PM, Greg Ewing wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> Nearly always wrong? You must be kidding. There are tons of >> reasons to >> call your super method with modified arguments. E.g. clipping, >> transforming, ... > > That's a good point. Just because the *signature* is the > same doesn't mean the *values* of the parameters need > to be the same.
This is quite true, and is indeed one case where it can be right to pass different arguments. Just in case there was confusion, I did not intend to imply that it should be impossible to pass different arguments, only that passing the same ones should be foolproof and not require repeating yourself. James _______________________________________________ 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
