[Python-Dev] PEP 246: lossless and stateless

[Clark C. Evans]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:54:33PM -0500, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
| > Since __conform__ and __adapt__
| > would sprout two new arguments, it would make those writing adapters
| > think a bit more about the kind of adapter that they are providing.
| 
| Using optional arguments may not be the most elegant or extensible
| approach.  Perhaps a registry table or adapter attributes would fare
| better.

I'm not sure how either of these would work since the adapt()
function could return `self`.  Adapter attributes wouldn't work in
that case (or would they?), and since adapters could be given
dynamically by __adapt__ or __conform__ a registry isn't all that
appropriate.   Perhaps we could just pass around a single **kwargs?

Best,

Clark