OT: Daylight savings time (was Re: Subclass sadness (was Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 285: Adding a bool type))

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Sun Mar 31 11:08:38 EST 2002


Richard Jones wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 15:46, Andrew Koenig wrote:
> > The other way around -- inheriting rectangle from square -- would
> > seem to make more sense because a rectangle has all the information
> > that a square does, and then some.  But that doesn't really work either,
> > because then you can no longer assume that every kind of square is
> > really a square.  After all, it might be a rectangle.
> 
> Hrm, just following this thought here, possibly for no good reason at all
> (hey, it's Sunday, and daylight savings just ended so I've got a whole _hour_
> extra to waste today :)... 

In which country?  Good thing it's not a work day, since I took your
word for it last night...  or was that another advance April Fools joke?

-Peter



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