"Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well - function inheritance is not known so far in python - and in no > other language I know.
Yeah, I didn't really expect it to work, but it seems like a logical consequence of type/class unification. > Basically you want __mult__ being part of f or g when python > encounters something like this > > f * g > > But then how did you plan to declare f? Come to think of it, that's also a wart. I'd been thinking of using a decorator, as Christopher Subich suggested, @composable def f(x): ... but it's not how the decorator could actually work (other than through gross CPython-specific hacks). > So the only way to achieve this with current semantics is to make f > anf g objects with a call methods. In that very moment, you're done - > as extending from object is no problem :) Yeah, I thought of that, but felt it wasn't in the proper spirit :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list