(I, Zooko, wrote the lines prepended with "> > ".)

Ben Laurie ben@algroup.co.uk wrote:

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No -- capabilities (as envisioned for Python) are references. Whether a reference to an object, to a bound method, or to a function doesn't matter.

I should note that this is a new (and good) idea, not one that we've previously expressed. And, of course, they are references with restrictions, which will be spelt out in the PEP.

Yes. It isn't that Brett missed something and I corrected him, it's that I just asserted an idea that hasn't previously been posted to the list.

Is the python-dev summary allowed to describe ideas posted in discussion of the python-dev summary? ;-)

Regards,

Zooko

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