Jeremy Hylton wrote:
"TH" == Thomas Heller <thomas.heller@ion-tof.com> writes:
TH> There are some signs :-) that Python's object model is going to TH> be revised even _before_ Python 3000.
TH> Is someone willing to join me fighting for class methods (I mean TH> 'real' class-methods in the Smalltalk style here, _not_ static TH> methods like in Java or C++).
The idea sounds good in the abstract. Class are objects and objects ought to have methods that implement their behavior. How does that very vague idea turn into something real? No clue. You start fighting and let's see where it goes :-).
Here's something to start the fight ;-) ... 1) What would you do with class methods that you cannot do with e.g. globals and functions ? 2) How would you determine which methods are class-only methods and which are one usable by instances ? 3) If you don't like globals (see 1), wouldn't it be possible to store the state you want to manipulate using class methods in some other context object ? My impression is that class methods are not really needed and would only make optimizing Python harder... but that's maybe just me ;-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/