On 02/05/2007 12.00, Christian Tanzer wrote: >>> Nearly always wrong? You must be kidding. There are tons of reasons to >>> call your super method with modified arguments. E.g. clipping, >>> transforming, ...
>> Really? >> http://fuhm.net/super-harmful/ > > Hmmm. > > I've just counted more than 1600 usages of `super` in my > sandbox. And all my tests pass. And you don't follow any of the guidelines reported in that article? And you never met any of those problems? I find it hard to believe. The fact that your code *works* is of little importance, since the article is more about maintenance of existing code using super (and the suggestions he proposes are specifically for making code using super less fragile to refactorings). -- Giovanni Bajo _______________________________________________ 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
