On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Mark Shannon <m...@hotpy.org> wrote: > In this example the metaclass (ie the class of C) is type (C is int), > even though the declared metaclass is 'silly'. > > I assume it is too late to change the name of the 'metaclass' keyword to > 'factory', but we could use that terminology in the docs.
"factory" is also wrong (since a more derived metaclass from a base class may be used instead). "metaclass_hint" or "requested_metaclass" would be more accurate names - as in Python 2, the value provided in the class definition is only one input to the algorithm that determines the metaclass (which is now correctly described in the language reference), rather than a simple factory function or direct specification of __class__. That slightly blurry terminology isn't new in Python 3 though, it's been around for pretty much as long as Python has supported metaclasses. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
