Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment: The reason I like the simplegeneric name is that that is exactly what this feature is: a *simple* generic implementation that is deliberately limited to dispatching on the first argument (because that is easily explained to users that are already familiar with OOP and especially the existing Python magic method dispatch mechanism.
So the name isn't just about avoiding name clashes, it's also about setting appropriate expectations as to what is supported. Yes, the name is a little clumsy but one thing I do *not* want to see happen is a swathe of feature requests asking that this become an all-singing all-dancing generic function mechanism like RuleDispatch. Don't forget that actually *writing* generic functions (i.e. using the @functools.simplegeneric decorator itself) should be far less common than using the .register() method of existing generic functions. _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5135> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
