[Python-3000] Abilities / Interfaces

[Steven Bethard]

On 11/22/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 09:42 AM 11/22/2006 -0700, Steven Bethard wrote:
> >Yeah, it certainly seems like in both this case and the string case,
> >there needs to be some shorthand for saying "implements all the basic
> >String/Number/whatever methods".
>
> But we are probably better off composing such a concept *from* the methods,
> rather than having the concept be merely a container *of* methods.

Yeah, I kinda assumed that the shorthand would be to define something like:

    IString = str.lower & str.upper & str.split & ...

But I'm still a little vague on how this supposed to be implemented.
This should definitely be elaborated in the PEP.

STeVe
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