On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
Ben Finney wrote:
Péter Szabó <ptspts@gmail.com> writes:
If Python had method decorators @final (meaning: it is an error to override this method in any subclass)
What use case is there for this? It would have to be quite strong to override the Python philosophy that “we're all consenting adults here”, and that the programmer of the subclass is the one who knows best whether a method needs overriding.
Agreed - the base class author has no right to tell subclass authors that they *can't* do something.
I'm sorry, but this is going too far. There are plenty of situations where, indeed, this ought to be only a hint, but I think it goes to far to say that a base class can never have the last word about something. Please note that I already suggested this be put in a 3rd party package -- I'm not about to make these builtins. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)