[Python-Dev] RE: Python-Dev digest, Vol 1 #1324 - 16 msgs

[Donald Beaudry]

"Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake@acm.org> wrote,
> 
> Greg Ewing writes:
>  >   class Foo:
>  > 
>  >     def ftang(class c, x, y, z);
>  >       ...
> 
>   I like this syntax better that the others.  While it requires that a
> single namespace is used for class and normal methods, I think that is
> a good thing -- we don't *want* overlapping sets of names!

But... we have overlaping names!  __init__ is just one example.
Further, that only works for methods.  How should class attributes be
distinguished?  Perhaps you dont want them.

Should a decision be made to go down this road, a big choice lies
ahead.  Are class objects "special" or are they simply instances of a
different class?  Because I didnt want to make a whole pile of
decisions regarding the "specialness" of class objects, I chose to
make the one decision that class object's only distinction from other
objects is that they are instances of a different class.  This is,
afterall, how all objects are distinguished.

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