On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not sure how to generate more discussion. It seems self-evident > that an abc with lots of abstract methods is inherently less usable > and that bitwise operations go beyond the basic notion of "integeriness". > Requiring all those methods to be defined makes it harder to write > a compliant class. > > Other than int/long, no currently existing type > matches-up with Integral. Does anyone care about this? > > Hopefully, some discussion gets generated. But if no one cares, I'll > happily drop it.
I'm just responding out of duty to add more discussion on the topic. I think I agree with Raymond on the basic principle that simple ABC's are easier to use than simple ones. Anyway, it's hard to add anything to the discussion when I haven't seen many applications of the Integral ABC, but in principle, but if I had to vote I'd say that the bitwise operators aren't particularly integery. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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