On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7 June 2016 at 14:20, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What would you consider to be the >> benefit of a mutable (or replaceable) __definition_order__ that >> outweighs the benefit of a simpler definition of what's in it. > > Mainly the fact that class decorators and metaclasses can't hide the > difference between "attributes defined in the class body" and > "attributes injected by a decorator or metaclass". I don't have a > concrete use case for that, it just bothers me on general principles > when we have things the interpreter can do that can't readily be > emulated in Python code.
Yeah, I see what you mean. > > However, if it proves to be a hassle in practice, making it writable > can be done later based on specific use cases, so I don't mind if the > PEP stays as it is on that front. Agreed. -eric _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
