FEEDBACK WANTED: Type/class unification

[Hamish Lawson]

Terry Reedy wrote:

> I presume you are proposing a default "def __call__(self): return
> self" for all objects.

Yes, that's what I was suggesting.

> Would it be useful? or would it encourage bad programming?, that is
> the question.

I think it's useful being able to hide whether a property of an object
should be obtained via simple attribute access or via a method call.
The PEP addresses this with its proposal for getters/setters, so that
attribute access can trigger a method call. I was exploring going the
other way - having it so that you could always employ a method call.
But there may well be problems with that approach.

Just-thinking-out-loud-ly,

Hamish Lawson