On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 7:02 PM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> > I DID in the discussion, immediately think of making an exception a > > dataclass, as someone else replied with. I guess if you want cargo in > your > > exception, that's a pretty good way to do it. > > "Cargo", that's an excellent term, thank you. > Before I used Python (and a bit overlapping), I largely developed in xBase languages (Clipper, FoxPro, XBase++, I even contributed slightly to a Free Software version called Harbour). In the later versions they added some OOP extensions that were used especially in relation to UI elements. The word "cargo" was in the official documentation of those languages to mean basically "optional data attached to a standard object." Basically, an extra runtime attribute that could be used for whatever. I think the word is really descriptive of a lot of what we do in many languages with "bundling some data with an object." I kinda wish it were used outside of those out-of-date languages. It's a good term. -- The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, become abortifacients against new conceptions.
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