[Python-3000] New section for PEP 3124

Benji York benji at benjiyork.com
Wed Jul 25 14:45:29 CEST 2007


Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> For example, epydoc and pydoc contain functions that inspect the type 
> of their arguments in order to decide what to with them.  While it's 
> arguable that in a GF world, the authors *should* have made those 
> functions overloadable, it isn't reasonable to expect everyone to 
> rewrite their code to make everything overloadable, nor to correctly 
> anticipate every function for which extension might be needed.

That makes me wonder.  Will it be possible to monkeypatch a function to 
make it overloadable?  I don't know if people will really do that, but 
at least the irony would be worth it.
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Benji York
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