On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Enumerations aren't a type at all (they have no distinguishing > property).
In any given language, this may be true, or not. Whether they should be distinct in Python is core to the current discussion. >From a backward-compatibility perspective, what makes sense depends on whether they're used to implement existing constants (socket.AF_INET, etc.) or if they reserved for new features only. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> "A storm broke loose in my mind." --Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ 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
