Progress on missing features?

[Dinu Gherman]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:53:04 -0400, "Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com>
wrote:

>[Dinu Gherman]
>> That sounds like a lot of people need to spend a lot of
>> time to think how to implement something that is more or
>> less a straightforward concept in other OO languages in
>> Python.
>
>Which concept is that?  "class method" means entirely different things to
>Smalltalk and C++ programmers, for example.  2.2 supports both meanings more
>naturally than in 2.1.  If you're familiar with only one of the meanings,
>here's your chance to learn just how "straightforward" a concept the other
>one really is <wink>.
>
>modules-are-powerful-too-ly y'rs  - tim

You're right, it is straightforward in each of them.
In Python it is just absent for the time being in 
the same sense, but as it seems this is about to 
change, too.

Regards,

Dinu

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