Is this considered black magic?

[Rainer Deyke]

"Scherer, Bill" <Bill.Scherer at VerizonWireless.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1005585556.28492.python-list at python.org...
>
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 17:02:38 +0100, Laura Creighton <lac at strakt.com>
wrote:
> (snip)
> >I have a new problem.  I've just lost a major amount of precision in my
> >language usage.  What is the collective noun for 'attributes that aren't
> >methods (you can't call them)'?
>
> UML refers to methods as 'operations', and the uncallable
> attributes as 'attributes'...

I don't know UML, but I suspect this is a different distinction.  Consider:

class Widget:
  def __init__(self, callback): self.callback = callback
  def go(self): return self.callback()

Would a Widget's 'callback' attribute really be considered an 'operation' in
this context?


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