Getting in to metaprogramming

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

 "Michele Simionato" <mico at mail.com> wrote:

>The namedtuple recipe by Raymond Hettinger (http://
>code.activestate.com/recipes/500261)
>is an interesting example of code generation. My own decorator module
>use a similar
>trick. Here code generation (plus eval/exec) is needed since you need
>control on
>the signature of a function. If we could change the signature of a
>function (I think
>this is possible in Python 3.0, I have to check) then we would not
>need code
>generation.

Right that is a definite counterexample.
van Rooyen's folly is officially dead.
It is stillborn.
It has snuffed it.
It lives no more.


Thanks. 

- Hendrik