Jorgen Harmse added the comment:
Is van Rossum serious? I responded to the comments on my report. The action is
to clarify the documentation, probably including a warning against multiple
inheritance.
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Guido van Rossum added the comment:
You appear more interested in a discussion of Python semantics than in
improving the tutorial. I see nothing actionable here.
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resolution: -> wont fix
stage: -> resolved
status: open -> closed
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Jorgen Harmse added the comment:
There may be more people who use Python, but there are strange semantics that
cause problems even for experienced Python programmers. For example,
assign-by-reference (apparently built without considering the solutions
available in MatLab & R) frequently
Guido van Rossum added the comment:
Just because __init__ is extra weird doesn't mean that other methods aren't
roughly like C++.
But I can't find the text the OP refers to. Without a specific pointer (at
least a URL and quoted text) this issue is non-actionable and should probably
be
Éric Araujo added the comment:
Maybe the reference should be removed entirely! Nowadays there may be more
people knowing Python and how its methods work than C++.
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nosy: +eric.araujo, gvanrossum
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New submission from Jorgen Harmse :
The description of classes mentions twice that methods are like C++ virtual
member functions, but the truth is a bit stranger.
Even __init__ seems to act like a virtual function, so there is no guarantee
that the base-class part of a derived-class instance
