At 01:51 PM 1/15/2008 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: >On Jan 15, 2008 1:27 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Second, a "metaclass" to add a number of methods (or other attributes) > > > to an existing class, using a convenient class notation: > > > > I think this is similar to my "partial" classes: > > > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/partial > >Indeed it is. I guess my only innovation is realizing that you don't >have to create a real metaclass -- you can set __metaclass__ to a >function that does the magic. I like your feature of refusing >overrides unless flagged with @replace. > >I think that despite the objection that monkeypatching shoudn't be >made too easy, it's worth at looking into a unification of the API, >features, and implementation.
I'm curious: has this affected your thoughts re: overloading existing functions? Note that overloading-in-place would provide the next_method idiom for calling the original function. (I'm assuming you still don't like the idea of changing a function's code to do it, just wondering about the non-implementation aspect. :) ) _______________________________________________ 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
