Phillip J. Eby wrote: > I'm only showing this example because I think getting rid of > __magic_names__ for operations could be a good thing for readability, and > it would remove an element of "magic" from today's Python.
Although overloadable functions are themselves somewhat magical, so this could be seen as just replacing one kind of magic by another. > That *would* be a paradigm shift, albeit one that > I doubt many Python users would seriously object to. On the contrary, I expect many Python users would object to it very strenuously, unless they somehow became convinced that the new paradigm was clearly superior overall to the old one. I for one am very much unconvinced of that. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
