Python aka. Smalltalk Lite?

Bijan Parsia bparsia at email.unc.edu
Sun Feb 13 15:04:13 EST 2000


Aahz Maruch <aahz at netcom.com> wrote:

> In article <1e5wxbt.bq9v2nqzwbxuN%bparsia at email.unc.edu>,
> Bijan Parsia <bparsia at email.unc.edu> wrote:
> >
> >Here's are some whimper inducing things for me:
> >        No class methods
> >        No super
> 
> Yeah, I've been able to work around these, but they're somewhat
> annoying.  Note that I believe that Smalltalk has only single
> inheritance,

Yep.

> so adopting super may be a bit difficult in Python.

Ooo, good point. 

Except Smalltalk *has had* multiple inheritence, and, indeed, you can
add it pretty easily. I don't know how they handled super, though.
Interesting question.

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.



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