Deprecating reload() ???

[Skip Montanaro]

    Hung Jung> But it is true that in Python you have to implement dynamic
    Hung Jung> refreshing of behavior (module or class) explicitly, whereas
    Hung Jung> in Ruby, as I understand, class behavior refreshing is
    Hung Jung> automatic.

That has its own attendant set of problems.  If an instance's state is
created with an old version of a class definition, then updated later to
refer to a new version, who's to say that the current state of the instance
is what you would have obtained had the instance been created using the new
class from the start?

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