Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
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...
A intriguing wider proposition would be to transpose Ruby's notion of
"Open Classes" to Python built-in metaclasses (or just to type
itself ?).
No, thanks. Even the Ruby guys start to think making evrything open may
not be such a good idea after all.
Wasn't an all-or-nothing proposition; a good objection is spelled out in PEP
3119 (ABCs) :
<citing>
...but there are some good reasons to keep the built-in types immutable (for
one, they are shared between all Python interpreters running in the same address
space, as is used by mod_python)
</citing>
Cheers, BB
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