Changing calling sequence

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun May 15 18:18:58 EDT 2022


On 16/05/22 1:20 am, 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE at potatochowder.com wrote:
> IMO,
> classmethods were/are a bad idea (yes, I'm probably in the minority
> around here, but someone has to be).

I don't think class methods are a bad idea per se, but having
them visible through instances seems unnecessary and confusing.
I suspect that wasn't a deliberate design decision, but just a
side effect of using a single class dict for both class and
instance things.

-- 
Greg


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