[XML-SIG] foo.bar vs. foo.get_bar()

[Jack Jansen]

Recently, Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> said:
> Is anyone yet willing to agree with me that computed attributes should
> be a language feature? Say uncle dammit!

If and only if you can come up with an efficient implementation. If it 
means that for every attribute "foo" declared somewhere in a base
class the interpreter will not only have to look up "foo" but also
"__getcomputedattr__" in every intermediate class I think it will slow 
things down too much, for all programs using inheritance.

But, of course, I'm perfectly willing to be convinced it can be done
efficiently. The __getattr__ hook is much to lowlevel a feature for
something useful like computed attributes.
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