Michele Simionato <michele.simion...@gmail.com> writes: > You may want to read "Things to know about super": > > http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=236275 > http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=236278 > http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=237121
Thanks for these articles. Any chance they will appear in a single location, so we don't need three separate URLs for them? Also, one article passes on this recommendation: use super consistently, and document that you use it, as it is part of the external interface for your class, like it or not. So, if use classes coming from a library in a multiple inheritance situation, you must know if the classes were intended to be cooperative (using super) or not. Library author should always document their usage of super. I can see lots of ways this fact could be documented, none of them terribly concise. It's a simple “yes/no” fact about a class, after all; what's the best way of succinctly conveying this information in a world where the problem is barely known, let alone the solution? -- \ “If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting | `\ them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good | _o__) reason.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list