[Python-Dev] Classes and Metaclasses in Smalltalk

[Greg Ewing]

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com>:

> I think it has to do with terminology: when I say "inherit"
> I actually mean "the lookup is forwarded to the another object".

Some OO languages munge together the instance and inheritance
relationships, but Python isn't one of them. Using terminology
that way in the context of Python is guaranteed to cause
massive confusion!

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