[Python-3000] PEP 3124 - Overloading, Generic Functions, Interfaces, etc.

[Talin]

Jim Jewett wrote:
> On 5/12/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>> At 01:43 PM 5/12/2007 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
> 
>> In practice, @around is mostly used for application-defined special
>> cases, and there is no higher authority than the application who
>> needs to override things.  If a library needs special combinators
>> internally, it's better off making them lower-than- at around
>> precedence.  Normal, before, and after methods are usually adequate
>> for libraries.  (Aside from special-purpose combinators like the
>> @discount example.)
> 
> (1)  Would it be reaonable to say this in the PEP?
> 
> (2)  Would it be reasonable to leave out (or at least, leave for
> another PEP) the extension methods like discount?

There ought to be a way to preserve with each PEP a separate document 
containing a more lengthy discussion of the rationales and consequences. 
Similar to the way that the _Federalist Papers_ is often used to 
interpret the meaning of the U.S. Constitution.

> -jJ
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