FEEDBACK WANTED: Type/class unification

[Steve Holden]

Just another random thought on the name for the first argument. How about
Michael?

spelled-"mycl"-of-course-ly y'rs  - steve
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<James_Althoff at i2.com> wrote in message
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> I've been playing around with the new type/class stuff and (so far) think
> it is great!  In particular the classmethod and staticmethod mechanisms
> seem to work very nicely.  It looks to me like I can use the classmethod
> mechanism to do all the same kinds of things that I used to do with
> metaclass methods in Smalltalk!  :-)
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> (Subclassing of builtin types seems to work nicely, too!)
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> One question: since class methods have a class object as the designated
> first argument, should there be a convention for naming this argument
> (similar to using "self" as the convention for standard instance methods)
> to enhance readability?  Perhaps "myclass" or "selfclass" or something
> similar?  Any thoughts?
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> Great job!!!
>
> Jim
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> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> Guido wrote:
> When I released Python 2.2a1, the type/class unification feature was
> announced as TENTATIVE.  It's been a while now (feels like a year,
> although I realize it's only been 10 days :), and I would like to see
> some feedback on this.
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> If there's anyone who believes the type/class unification should not
> become a feature in Python 2.2, please speak up now or forever hold
> your peace...  (But I'd rather you speak up!)
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> Note that if you have concerns about backwards incompatibilities, the
> best thing you can do is point them out ASAP.  I want to ensure that
> 2.2 (final) is as compatible with 2.1 as possible, while still
> providing the new exciting features that type/class unification makes
> possible.
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> I realize the PEPs aren't done yet, but I believe that the separate
> introduction I wrote goes a long way towards explaining type/class
> unification.  Read it here:
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>   http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html
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> Any questions, don't hesitate to ask.  Just DON'T CHANGE THE THREAD
> TOPIC.  I don't have time to read the entire newsgroup (I tried this
> week, and I didn't get to anything else :).
>
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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