Feb. 5, 2001
5:47 a.m.
The old type/class split: list is a type, and types spell their "method tables" in ways that have little in common with how classes do it.
Maybe as a first step towards type/class unification one day, we could add __xxx__ attributes to all the builtin types, and start to think of the method table as the definitive source of all methods, with the tp_xxx slots being a sort of cache for the most commonly used ones.
Yes, I've often thought that we should be able to heal the split for 95% by using a few well-aimed tricks like this. Later... --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)