2.2 features

Christopher A. Craig com-nospam at ccraig.org
Fri Aug 3 13:30:44 EDT 2001


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Charlie Clark <charlie at begeistert.org> writes:

> I understand the problem like this: Classes keep lists of their
> sub-classes *and* of their instances and "in" is a keyword which checks
> for membership in sequences.

As currently proposed (last I checked) this is incorrect.  You have it
backwards.  An instance knows what it is, and a subclass knows who it
inherits from, but the reverse is not true.  For this reason I think
the correct way to spell these should be something like

instance.isinstanceof(class)
class.issubclassof(metaclass)


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Christopher A. Craig <com-nospam at ccraig.org>
"When all else fails, manipulate the data."
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