On 2021-06-22 8:11 p.m., Chris Angelico wrote:
> 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.
We have never felt a need for extension methods in python, no.
>
> ChrisA
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