[docs] [issue10977] Concrete object C API considered harmful to subclasses of builtin types

[Eric Snow]

Eric Snow added the comment:

> Because calling them *from* method implementations in concrete subclasses...

We do the same thing from Python all the time (though less so with the availability of super).
E.G. dict.__init__(self, ...) and dict.__set item__(self, key, value).

Now, if the C-API had some equivalent to super...

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