why not extending the syntax for classes, too ?

[Michael Hudson]

mis6 at pitt.edu (Michele Simionato) writes:

> Having not followed the thread on python-dev, I see now that we are 
> talking about different things, whence the confusion.

If you *had* followed python-dev, there's no guarantee things would
have made more sense...

> > > I was thinking to chain with commas, as in
> > > 
> > > class C is Traced,Profiled,Protected: #etc. etc.
> > 
> > Does that do the moral equivalent of
> > 
> > class _Foo(Traced,Profiled,Protected):
> >     pass
> > 
> > C = _Foo('C', (), {whatever})
> > 
> > ?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > M.
> 
> No, I was too much implicit.
> 
> class C(B) is Traced,Profiled,Protected: 
> 
> to me was
> 
> class C(B): __metaclass__=type(
>             "TracedProfiledProtected",(Traced,Profiled,Protected),{})
> 
> with Traced, Profiled and Protected all metaclasses.

That's actually more-or-less the same thing :-)

> At this point, I wonder if Holger and Erik are talking about yet
> another functionality ...

Could well be.

Cheers,
M.

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