[Python-Dev] Re: Introduction

[Guido van Rossum]

> With the new surge of interest in metaclasses, I expect many
> competing DBC implementations to come into existence.  An early
> commitment to one of them may preclude better ideas from
> getting a chance.
> 
> Another thought is that all of the machinery is in place to enable
> a library of cooperating metaclass tools as envisioned by
> Forman and Danforth's metaclass book.  Any metaclass work
> included in the distribution ought to make allowances for
> being included side-by-side with threadsafety metaclasses,
> logging metaclasses, auto property creators, auto delegators,
> and such.
> 
> In summary, I prefer that DBC not be PEPed.  Instead, let things
> grow on SF, the cookbook, the vaults, and private offerings.

Good suggestions!  This can be done many ways.  Let's find ot which
works best.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)