On Apr 1, 3:29 am, Kay Schluehr <kay.schlu...@gmx.net> wrote: > > "Discoverable", as in built-in tools that let you have the following > > conversation: "Program, tell me all the things I can configure about > > you" - "Okay, here they all are". No digging through the source > > required. > > But this doesn't have any particular meaning. If I run a dir(obj) > command all attributes of obj will be returned and I can be sure these > are all. In C# I can reflect on attributes of an assembly which is a > well defined entity. "Program" is not an entity. It's kind of a user > interface name in StarTreck ( which prefers "computer" for this > purpose though ). This way we cannot design systems.
"Module and transitive graph of other modules (constructed through 'import' statements), tell me all the things I can configure about you". Is that a little clearer? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
