Re: NOT Python: Taxonomy list reference

2006-03-21 Thread Francois
This taxonomy is described in the Python Cookbook 2nd Ed,. Chapter 6, Introduction written by Alex Martelli, on page 234. The author explains that "multiple inheritance frees you from these contraints" - of fitting into a single taxonomy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: NOT Python: Taxonomy list reference

2006-03-21 Thread Gerard Flanagan
ej wrote: > I hope you will forgive this being a bit off subject, but this is about > the smartest list of people I know. I came across a list in the past while > studying OO methdology stuff. The list was trying to make the point of the > problem classification systems often run into (i.e., ofte

Re: NOT Python: Taxonomy list reference

2006-03-21 Thread jay graves
ej wrote: > Any Pythonistas out there know the list I am referring to and could point me > to it? Thanks for your time! :) google for "Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge" I don't have my copy with me now but I think I might have seen it in "Code Complete 2" or maybe I'm just imagining th

NOT Python: Taxonomy list reference

2006-03-21 Thread ej
I hope you will forgive this being a bit off subject, but this is about the smartest list of people I know. I came across a list in the past while studying OO methdology stuff. The list was trying to make the point of the problem classification systems often run into (i.e., often things belong