Syntax modification idea: (classmethods, properties locking...)

[Ian Bicking]

On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 08:19, Michele Simionato wrote:
> Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1043356128.29302.python-list at python.org>...
> <snip>
> > That's reasonable, but still leaves the problem of composing these
> > metaclasses.  I've begun using metaclasses in my library code, and I
> > like it -- but (I think) I'd need to make my metaclass a subclass of
> > this canonical metaclass in order for them to be compatible.  Unless
> > maybe you could do __metaclass__ = (PropMetaclass, SomeOtherMetaclass)
> > -- I haven't tested that (and metaclasses seem poorly documented right
> > now).  I still don't feel entirely comfortable with my understanding of
> > the semantics of metaclasses, so I couldn't quite predict what multiple
> > metaclasses would mean.
> 
> You want
> 
> __metaclass__=type('DoubleMetaclass',(PropMetaclass, SomeOtherMetaclass),{})

Okay, now what does that *mean*? :)  (It doesn't seem to be in the
documentation)

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