FEEDBACK WANTED: Type/class unification

[Guido van Rossum]

When I released Python 2.2a1, the type/class unification feature was
announced as TENTATIVE.  It's been a while now (feels like a year,
although I realize it's only been 10 days :), and I would like to see
some feedback on this.

If there's anyone who believes the type/class unification should not
become a feature in Python 2.2, please speak up now or forever hold
your peace...  (But I'd rather you speak up!)

Note that if you have concerns about backwards incompatibilities, the
best thing you can do is point them out ASAP.  I want to ensure that
2.2 (final) is as compatible with 2.1 as possible, while still
providing the new exciting features that type/class unification makes
possible.

I realize the PEPs aren't done yet, but I believe that the separate
introduction I wrote goes a long way towards explaining type/class
unification.  Read it here:

  http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html

Any questions, don't hesitate to ask.  Just DON'T CHANGE THE THREAD
TOPIC.  I don't have time to read the entire newsgroup (I tried this
week, and I didn't get to anything else :).

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