At 06:20 PM 5/20/2007 +1000, Tim Delaney wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

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Tim Delaney wrote:

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So the question is, should the method store the class, or the name? Looking up by name could pick up a totally unrelated class, but storing the undecorated class could miss something important in the decoration.

Couldn't we provide a mechanism whereby the cell can be adjusted to point to the decorated class? (heck, the interpreter has access to both classes after execution of the class statement - it could probably arrange for this to happen automatically whenever the decorated and undecorated classes are different).

Yep - I thought of that. I think that's probably the right way to go.

Btw, PEP 3124 needs a way to receive the same class object at more or less the same moment, although in the form of a callback rather than a cell assignment. Guido suggested I co-ordinate with you to design a mechanism for this.

At 06:20 PM 5/20/2007 +1000, Tim Delaney wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

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Tim Delaney wrote:

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So the question is, should the method store the class, or the name? Looking up by name could pick up a totally unrelated class, but storing the undecorated class could miss something important in the decoration.

Couldn't we provide a mechanism whereby the cell can be adjusted to point to the decorated class? (heck, the interpreter has access to both classes after execution of the class statement - it could probably arrange for this to happen automatically whenever the decorated and undecorated classes are different).

Yep - I thought of that. I think that's probably the right way to go.

Btw, PEP 3124 needs a way to receive the same class object at more or less the same moment, although in the form of a callback rather than a cell assignment. Guido suggested I co-ordinate with you to design a mechanism for this.