Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:43:35 -0800, Ben Sizer wrote: > > Is it possible to make it have the following sort of behaviour? : > > > >>>> ShirtSize.small == AppleSize.small > > True > > Okay, so I was wrong to say that nobody was seriously suggesting that sort > of behaviour.
I was working under what looks to have been an incorrect assumption that someone was looking for a way to do the above. After all, it was mentioned in what seemed like seriousness. I can't think of a use case for it, myself. > > It works for comparing a boolean (True) vs. an integer (1), so it has > > some sort of precedent. (Especially if you make the tenuous assumption > > that True,False are language-supported 'enums' for 0 and 1.) > > Enums are not conceptually subclasses of integers. Integers just happen to > be a useful method to implement enumerations. Aren't they? They have discrete values, can be ordered and compared for equality, etc. I think the 'numerate' part of 'enumeration' is a hint here. They certainly don't look much further from being integers than booleans do. But, if nobody actually needs the behaviour I described before, this point is irrelevant. -- Ben Sizer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
