On 4/24/07, Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey, why not? They do basically the same thing, except instancemethod allows only a single argument. Why not allow class and instance methods to be wrapped with a partial instead of their own type? We can rip out 300 lines of C code supporting instance method, at least. The only thorn is the im_class attribute, but few seem to even use it (few meaning just Twisted, according to Google Code Search). Anyway, I figure we don't really need it anyway because if some of the proposals for a way to reliably get the current function, class, or module go through, perhaps we'll have a reference to the class from the function itself. What does anyone think?

Huh, interesting idea. In theory it seems fine. I would want to know if any performance penalty exists from this first, though. -Brett

On 4/24/07, Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey, why not? They do basically the same thing, except instancemethod allows only a single argument. Why not allow class and instance methods to be wrapped with a partial instead of their own type? We can rip out 300 lines of C code supporting instance method, at least. The only thorn is the im_class attribute, but few seem to even use it (few meaning just Twisted, according to Google Code Search). Anyway, I figure we don't really need it anyway because if some of the proposals for a way to reliably get the current function, class, or module go through, perhaps we'll have a reference to the class from the function itself. What does anyone think?

Huh, interesting idea. In theory it seems fine. I would want to know if any performance penalty exists from this first, though. -Brett