FEEDBACK WANTED: Type/class unification

[Gregory P. Smith]

Yuck IMHO.  that would make the callable() function much less useful
for distinguishing between things that are meant to be called vs.
things that just happen to return themselves when called.  (lots of
existing code would break)

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:58:59AM -0700, Hamish Lawson wrote:
> While on this subject, would it be an idea to make built-in types
> callable, so that you just call an object without caring whether it
> was a function/method or a simple type? Thus:
> 
> x = 10
> 
> def y():
>     return 10
> 
> x()
> y()

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