[Python-3000] pep 3124 plans

[Guido van Rossum]

On 7/19/07, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/07/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > The only approach to retroactive generification that I approve of is
> > replacing the entire object with a wrapper of sorts, e.g.
> >
> >   foo = generify(foo)
>
> Which (again, just to clarify) means that you would require that
> generic functions be introduced by a decorator?
>
>     @generic
>     def foo():
>         pass
>
> (your explicit equivalent would be for "after the fact" conversion to
> a generic).

Yes.

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