[Python-Dev] re: Using lists as sets

[Moshe Zadka]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

>     MZ> Agreed though, that the whole iteration protocol should be
>     MZ> revisited -- but that is a subject for another post.
> 
> Yup.

(Go Stackless, go!?)

>     JH> I believe this is where types-vs.-classes meets
>     JH> subtyping-vs.-inheritance.
> 
> meets protocols-vs.-interfaces.

It took me 5 minutes of intensive thinking just to understand what Barry
meant. Just wait until we introduce Sather-like "supertypes" (which are
pretty Pythonic, IMHO)

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