[Python-Dev] type categories

[David Abrahams]

From: "Greg Ewing" <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>


> David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>:
> 
> > Koenig lookup raises a similar issue: that the behavior of a function
> > call can be changed depending on which headers are #included, and even
> > the order they're #included in.
> 
> But at least you can, in principle, figure out what will be done by a
> particular call in the source, by examining the files included by that
> source file.
> 
> With the proposed generic function mechanism in Python, that wouldn't
> be true.

Like anything in Python, you can figure out what will happen by 

a. examining all the source that will be executed
b. examining the state of things at runtime.

What's new?

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           David Abrahams * Boost Consulting
dave@boost-consulting.com * http://www.boost-consulting.com




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