Class/type unification and reference to unbound methods

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <mailman.989574504.17088.python-list at python.org>,
Christian Tanzer  <tanzer at tttech.com> wrote:
>
>I sometimes refer to superclasses' methods in the class body as in:
>
>   class A:
>     def spam(self):
>       ...
>
>   class B(A):
>     def spam(self):
>       ...
>
>   class C(A):
>     def spam(self):
>       ...
>   
>   class D(B, C):
>     spam = C.spam
>
>This is akin to feature renaming as supported by Eiffel and comes in
>handy when one class is found in the inheritance chain repeatedly.
>Such renaming also is useful with extensive use of mixins.

FYI, this has been part of the python-dev discussion.  I shan't say more
than that because I don't understand it.  ;-)
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