[issue46419] Incomplete Comparison to C++ Methods

2022-01-21 Thread Jorgen Harmse
Jorgen Harmse added the comment: Is van Rossum serious? I responded to the comments on my report. The action is to clarify the documentation, probably including a warning against multiple inheritance. -- ___ Python tracker <ht

[issue46419] Incomplete Comparison to C++ Methods

2022-01-21 Thread Jorgen Harmse
Jorgen Harmse added the comment: There may be more people who use Python, but there are strange semantics that cause problems even for experienced Python programmers. For example, assign-by-reference (apparently built without considering the solutions available in MatLab & R) freque

[issue46419] Incomplete Comparison to C++ Methods

2022-01-17 Thread Jorgen Harmse
New submission from Jorgen Harmse : The description of classes mentions twice that methods are like C++ virtual member functions, but the truth is a bit stranger. Even __init__ seems to act like a virtual function, so there is no guarantee that the base-class part of a derived-class instance