[Types-sig] Re: Meta-classes discussion starter

[Donald Beaudry]

Just van Rossum <just@letterror.com> wrote,
> While digging in ceval.c and understanding how the Don Beaudry and
> Guido's own hook actually work I came up with mine, which I define thusly:
> 
> 	If the __dict__ of the class that is being built has a __class__
> 	key, call that thing with (name, bases, methods)
> 
> Which means you specify a metaclass like this:
> 
> class MyClass:
> 	__class__ = MyMetaClass
> 
> Not exactly pretty, but at least it doesn't look like inheritance. It also
> means that if you want to subclass from MyMetaClass you write

Fantastic!  Just, you're a genius!  ...and coming from a raving
lunatic, that might mean something, like you too are a raving lunatic.
That's exactly what I proposed a while back, but with a twist.  You
might be interested in talking a look at my objectmodule extension.

The twist is what you just proposed is allowed, you can then nest your
meta-class definition inside the class that needs it.  I just posted
an example of that in my last message to this sig.

	--Don