[Python-Dev] type categories

[Greg Ewing]

> I don't like the bureacracy of declaring interfaces and maintaining 
> registeries. I like the ad-hoc nature of Python protocols and I want a 
> type system that gives me the tools to use it better, not replace it with 
> something more formal.

But you seem to want *something* that's more formal.
How formal exactly do you have in mind? How does it
differ from what Zope does? (Which I know nothing
about, by the way...)

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