On 01Feb2014 10:05, Ben Finney <[email protected]> wrote: > Ned Batchelder <[email protected]> writes: > > Why can't we call __init__ the constructor and __new__ the allocator? > > Because those terms already have meanings, and “__new__” fits the > meaning of “constructor” better.
+1 on not giving new conflicting meanings to terms already well defined in practice. Better just to make in clear in the __init__ docs that there is a separate construction step. -- Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Babbage -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
