Oct. 28, 2003
1:57 p.m.
At 09:56 AM 10/28/03 +0100, Alex Martelli wrote:
AND, adaptation is not typecasting: e.g y=adapt("23", int) should NOT succeed.
Obviously, it wouldn't succeed today, since int doesn't have __adapt__ and str doesn't have __conform__. But why would you intend that they not have them in future? And, why do you consider adaptation *not* to be typecasting? I always think of it as "give me X, rendered as a Y", which certainly sounds like a description of typecasting to me.