Alan Gauld wrote: >> proposal for dynamic function overloading: >> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=155514 > > I really don't like this proposal nor many of the others that currently > exist to seemingly turn Python into Java and C++! If people want to > code in the Java porridge let them use Java not try to turn Python > into the same sludge.
FWIW there is enough perceived need for this (and adapters or protocols) that it has been invented already two or three times, in PEAK (by Philip J Eby, author of a popular "Python is not Java" rant*), Zope and twisted IIRC. The PEAK version has been adopted by TurboGears. I think twisted has abandoned its own effort and adopted Zope's. So I don't think it is necessarily people who want to turn Python into Java, but meeting a need that comes up in large projects. Kent * http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
