Re: [Python-3000] Adaption & generic functions [was Generic functions]

2006-04-09 Thread Eli Stevens (WG.c)
Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 4/7/06, Walter Dörwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> An Interface is an abstract class that you subclass to make it a >> concrete implementation. > > That's not the view of most people who use the word interface these > days. Not in Zope (see Fred Drake's post), not in

Re: [Python-3000] sets in P3K?

2006-04-27 Thread Eli Stevens (WG.c)
Barry Warsaw wrote: > Okay, radical/insane/heretical question time: do we really need literal > tuple syntax? IOW, what if (1, 2, 3) created a frozenset instead of a > tuple? > > Or perhaps an even stupider idea: what if the compiler could recognize > certain use cases and generate different type