[Python-3000] pep 3124 plans

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 01:37 PM 7/18/2007 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> > It allows the framework to bootstrap via successive
> > approximation.  Initially, the 'implies()' function is just a plain
> > function, and then it later becomes a generic function.  (And of
> > course it gets called in between those two points.)  The same happens
> > for 'disjuncts()' and 'overrides()'.
>
>But you know from the outset that these functions will
>eventually become generic, so why can't they be defined
>as some callable object that can have its insides
>switched, if you're on a Python whose normal function
>objects don't allow that?

Well, phrased that way, it sounds like a justification for treating 
it as a porting strategy for such Pythons.  The library could just 
use a "copy_code(srcfunc, dstfunc)" function that's implemented 
differently on different Pythons.