[Python-Dev] User's complaints

[Fredrik Lundh]

Bob Ippolito wrote:

>> What do you mean by "open classes"? Python
>> classes already seem pretty open to me, by
>> the standards of other languages!
>
> I'm guessing he's talking about being like Ruby or Objective-C where
> you can add methods to any other class in the runtime.

wouldn't a standard multiargument dispatch mechanism solve this, for
most (all?) practical use cases.

(and while we're at it, wouldn't a standard multiargument dispatch be
nice replacement for the instance-oriented lookup we're using today?
dispatching on a single value is so last century ;-)

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