[Python-3000] Adaption & generic functions [was Generic functions]

[Guido van Rossum]

On 4/7/06, Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
> On Friday 07 April 2006 14:33, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>  > OTOH if you really like to express implementing an interface as
>  > inheriting from that interface, what's the problem with inheriting the
>  > adapter?
>
> Ugh!  Inheritance should only be done to get implementation.  If there's value
> in default implementation of methods, a base class can be provided
> independently of the interface.

That's what I was thinking -- I was only trying to guess what Walter was after.

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