Horrible abuse of __init_subclass__, or elegant hack?

[dn]

On 02/04/2021 13.00, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 10:43 AM dn via Python-list
> <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 02/04/2021 10.13, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> Well, it's a simple matter of chronology. First you have crude oil,
>>> then time passes, and then you have plastic and residue. It makes
>>> sense ONLY if you think of it with a specific ordering, which implies
>>> Python 3.7 or later.
>>
>> My anxiety over 'ordering' comes to the fore: if there are multiple
>> inputs and/or multiple outputs, how can one tell where the former series
>> ends and the latter begins?
>>
>> "Explicit" cf "implicit"?
> 
> The exact same way. Before time passes, you have all of the inputs;
> after time passes, you have all of the outputs. (The way the game
> goes, all inputs are consumed simultaneously and all outputs produced
> simultaneously, so there's no chronological distinctions between
> them.)

Ah, I hadn't suspended enough of (my) reality to realise that we are
talking about a game.

Morphology in the arms of Morpheus?

English Idiom/quotation:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_the_arms_of_Morpheus


> Chocolate comes in tiers.
> 
> 1: Top tier chocolates - fine chocolates - are made by true artisans,

It is well to remember artisans (people who work with artesian water?),
but I'm more interested in being an aficionado - thus any
addition/alteration to the chocolate is at best diminution, and at
worst, 'pollution'!

Stop being distracted, AND save money!


> 2: Everyday chocolate. ...can eat a block of Cadbury every day

I realised that the days of my six-pack were over when I met chocolate.
These days rather than an eight-pack, I'm settling for an ate-pack!

"Six pack" abs:
https://www.menshealth.com/uk/building-muscle/a747790/four-week-six-pack-plan/

"Ate-pack": I saw it. I ate it!


> 3: Cooking chocolate. 

Eating this sounds much like drinking from a plain, brown, bag...


> 4: Cheap chocolate. 

This is like trying to write Python code as if it were Java - they even
taste much the same!


>> View
>> https://www.whittakers.co.nz/en_NZ/products/72-dark-ghana/block-250g
>> before questioning my curmugeonly credentials!
> 
> Oh yes, that's definitely one of the good brands. By "credentials", do
> you mean that you have some connection with the company? If not,
> that's fine, but it would certainly be notable if you do!

Meaning that you'd only love me for my (access to) chocolate?
(I'd feel so used - if the chocolate 'high' allowed)

Sadly, my only connection to the company is purchaser:supplier. However,
I should volunteer to be a taster, or to use my ?expertise to train
their staff. Do you think they have an 'all you can eat' policy?

Is there such a thing as F/LOSS in the chocolate world? What does it
mean to fork a block of chocolate? Where is their repository?


My overwhelming qualifications and thus "credentials", and those which I
seem to be extending most often these days, involve ageing
(dis-)gracefully and becoming a curmudgeon.

Definition of 'grumpy old man': https://www.dictionary.com/browse/curmudgeon

Bah, the chocolate these days is nothing like what we had when I were a
lad...!
-- 
Regards,
=dn