Python and generic programming

[Roman Suzi]

Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
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On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Josiah Carlson wrote:

>
> > I wonder, does Python support generic programming paradigm, and to
> > what extent (I guess, it doesn't do it in full)? And (or) does it move
> > in that direction? Will we ever see
> >
> > concept WellAlright:
> >    ...
> >
> > constructs in Python?
> > Isn't it right time to reserve "concept" as a keyword ;-)
>
>
> Perhaps you meant something different, but  C++ style generic (template)
> programming is not necessary in Python.

Most Python programs are already kinda generic, yes. But generic
programming adds multi-sorted types control and constraints to ensure type
safety...

> With decorators, there is an easy method for generating per-argument
> type checking and dispatch for functions and methods.
>
> As Python does runtime type checking, if you care to support different
> types of arguments even without decorators, one is able.
>
>  - Josiah
>