[Python-3000] Discussions with no PEPs

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Mar 13, 2007, at 10:12 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> Generics can live quite happily inside modules and as methods on  
> objects.
>
> The important aspect is the ability to tell the generic function  
> "here's how to frobnicate a doodad", even though the basic  
> frobnicator knows nothing about doodads, and doodads know nothing  
> about frobnicating. That machinery can be designed to work for any  
> callable.

Are generics then just a way of doing adaptation on a per-function  
basis rather than a per-object basis?

- -Barry

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