On 24-okt-2005, at 12:54, Josiah Carlson wrote:
>>
>
> Metaclass abuse? Oh, I'm sorry, I thought that the point of
> metaclasses
> were to offer a way to make "magic" happen in a somewhat pragmatic
> manner, you know, through metaprogramming. I would call this
> particular
> use a practical application of standard Python semantics.
I'd say using a class statement to define a property is metaclass
abuse, as would
anything that wouldn't define something class-like. The same is true
for other
constructs, using an decorator to define something that is not a
callable would IMHO
also be abuse.
That said, I really have an opinion on the 'create' statement
proposal yet. It
does seem to have a very limited field of use. I'm quite happy with
using property
as it is, property('get_foo', 'set_foo') would take away most if not
all of
the remaining problems.
Ronald
_______________________________________________
Python-Dev mailing list
Python-Dev@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev
Unsubscribe:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
