On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Chris Barker <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>> They can, and they @override can be bypassed. I don't see that as a
>> condemnation of @overload -- it just means that it's not perfect, which is
>> fine with me (given that we're talking about monkey-patching here).
>>
>
> sure -- but this all strikes me as kind of like type checking -- there is
> a lot of use for robust code, but we don't want it at run-time in the
> language.
>
> Also -- the ship has kinda sailed on this - maybe a @not_override would
> make more sense.
>
> Isn't the goal to make sure you don't accidentally override a method?
> saying "I know I'm overriding this" is less useful than "I'm not intending
> to override anything here"
>

I think you're fighting a straw man. I never said @override should be added
to the language. I said that it would be useful to have a 3rd party
metaclass or a class decorator that implements it which packages may
voluntarily use to constrain their subclasses (or their own uses --
different designs are possible).

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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