On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 19:27, Tim Hochberg wrote:
I actually have no idea how you plan to make keyword arguments work here, perhaps you could explain that in more detail. Metaclasses are overkill, but a mixin, marker class could be used. That is, when designing a class for use with numarray, one would derive a class from a marker class in numarray::
class MyArrayLikeClass(numarray.DeferToMe): ....
Hmmm. That's not too bad. Todd, what do you think about using this logic::
def __mul__(self, operand): if isinstance(operand, DeferToMe): operand.__rmul__(self) else: self.__mul__(operand)
I like the core idea a lot. My only doubt is whether forcing the use of inheritance is appropriate / a good thing. We might also consider spelling it like: class MyArrayLikeClass: _numarray_defer_to_me = True class NumArray: def __mul__(self, operand): if hasattr(operand, "_numarray_defer_to_me"): return operand.__rmul__(self) else: return ufunc.multiply(self, operand)
The only case where I see a potential problem is an old-style C-extenstion that can't be subclassed. I think that might be a case of YAGNI though.
Sounds YAGNI to me.
Avoiding registration is appealing.
Good to have this seconded.
-tim
All in all, great ideas! Todd -- Todd Miller <jmiller@stsci.edu>