[Python-3000] New section for PEP 3124
Benji York
benji at benjiyork.com
Wed Jul 25 14:45:29 CEST 2007
Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> For example, epydoc and pydoc contain functions that inspect the type
> of their arguments in order to decide what to with them. While it's
> arguable that in a GF world, the authors *should* have made those
> functions overloadable, it isn't reasonable to expect everyone to
> rewrite their code to make everything overloadable, nor to correctly
> anticipate every function for which extension might be needed.
That makes me wonder. Will it be possible to monkeypatch a function to
make it overloadable? I don't know if people will really do that, but
at least the irony would be worth it.
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Benji York
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