Chocolate [was Re: Python Books for 2002]

[Emile van Sebille]

But wouldn't it just as likely then be:

person.be_consumed_by(substance)

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Emile van Sebille
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"Greg Ewing" <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
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> Ben Wolfson wrote:
> >
> > from Animals.Mammals import Human
> >
> > hungry_person = Human()
> >
> > So that the hungry_person can .consume() the comestibles.
>
> But the method of consumption depends on the class
> of the substance, so dispatching on it seems
> appropriate. Perhaps
>
>   substance.be_consumed_by(person)
>
> Then in the future one could define additional
> classes of substance such as Cocaine and Heroin
> and the code will continue to work.
>
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