Metaclass with name overloading.

Bengt Richter bokr at oz.net
Tue Sep 28 17:07:27 EDT 2004


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:37:31 +0200, aleaxit at yahoo.com (Alex Martelli) wrote:
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>At this point, your templating is not declarative -- it's imperative.
>Like everything in Python, btw -- not ONE 'declarative' in sight (except
>the 'global' statement, which is part of what makes it a wart;-).

Hm ;-) Is a module source a declaration of (imperative) intent, passive until imported?
ISTM we are getting into shades of semantics. Interesting though ;-)
For a language that plays well both ways, I would try scheme or lisp, I think.

Regards,
Bengt Richter



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