On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:38:35PM -0800, Jonathan Sillito wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > A property is a runtime assignable name/value pair that you stick on > > a variable or value. An attribute is a named variable that all > > objects of a particular class have. > > > > Properties can come and go at runtime, but attributes are fixed. (I > > think you could also consider attributes "instance variables", but > > I'm a bit OO fuzzy so I'm not sure that's entirely right) > > Ok, in the case of python or ruby, instance variables are not fixed and they > are not declared as part of the class. I suppose this can be handled by > giving such classes one hash attribute for storing these instance variables.
Yeah, that would be similar to how Python works now anyway; all instance attributes are stored in a dict which is itself accessible as an attribute on an instance: '__dict__'. Oh, except for the new __slots__ feature, which might actually find a use with the fixed-attribute-system that Dan has proposed. -- Twisted | Christopher Armstrong: International Man of Twistery Radix | Release Manager, Twisted Project ---------+ http://twistedmatrix.com/users/radix.twistd/
