Multiple dispatch (Re: Q: Python 2.0 preliminary features?)

[Martijn Faassen]

skaller <skaller at maxtal.com.au> wrote:
[snip]
> Since python doesn't provide encapsulation, (it is object
> based, not object oriented)

Not to start a flamewar, but I haven't seen this definition of 'object based'
before. I thought object based languages had classes with methods, but no
inheritance.

If encapsulation is the key for Real Object Orientedness (tm), then Smalltalk,
one of the prototypical object oriented languages, wouldn't be object oriented
either. Seems a bit odd.

Regards,

Martijn
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