On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:08:35 -0700, Jeffrey P Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Or, if you were defining the interface in IDL (mmm, >>> almost-avoiding-redundancy through acronyms!) with the target language being >>> Python, would you include self? >> >> But what if you were defining an interface as a Python class, with the >> target language being <anything except python>. Would you include >> self? > >I'm saying that you wouldn't. The point of IDL/ISL is that you wouldn't, >because the interface that you're specifying is independent of the target >language. Perhaps you misread. I agree the specification is independant of the target language. I agree that the content of the specification should be independent of the specification language. However, Im sure you agree that the text of the specification is intimitely dependant on the specification language. Using python classes as the specification language, but not including the 'self', seems (IMHO) to be as crazy as using C++ classes as the specification language but not using curly brackets. >> I think my conclusion here is that using python classes to define >> interfaces may be counterproductive. > >It may be the best we have (it's best understood by the target development >audience) As a product author I thought I *was* the target audience. >..[1] http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0245.html A good reference, thanks Toby Dickenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
