[Python-Dev] PEP 246, redux

Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
Wed Jan 12 16:49:20 CET 2005


[Phillip]
> As for the issue of what should and shouldn't exist in Python, it doesn't
> really matter; PEP 246 doesn't (and can't!) *prohibit* transitive
> adaptation.

Really? Then isn't it underspecified? I'd think that by the time we
actually implement PEP 246 in the Python core, this part of the
semantics should be specified (at least the default behavior, even if
there are hooks to change this).

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