On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 9:06 AM Soni L. <fakedme...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2021-06-22 7:38 p.m., Chris Angelico wrote: > > Have you actually tried designing this into a larger project to see > > what problems you run into, or is this something you've only > > considered at this trivial level? > > 1. It's opt-in. > 2. It's designed to be used by a hypothetical extension methods module, > but without imposing any design constraints on such module. It could > return a named function every time a given name is looked up (a la "bind > the first argument" operator), or do dynamic dispatch based on types or > ABCs (a la proper extension methods). > > In practice, you don't def your own __dot__, but rather use someone > else's "__dot__ builder". If you don't wanna deal with it, just don't > use __dot__. > > It's also useful for the occasional domain-specific language. >
What I'm hearing from you is: "No". Lots of words to say it, but, the answer to my question seems to be no. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/BZ7BR5ACN2VXJQA6LVV6FNSOCKFVQTWT/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
