[Python-3000] Fixing super anyone? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Apr 24 00:38:21 CEST 2007

On 4/23/07, Adam Olsen <rhamph at gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/23/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote: > But I can't say I particularly like this idea, compared to "super.foo" or > even "super(self).foo". In fact, the latter invocation doesn't even > require a keyword -- it just means the compiler needs to include a cell > variable for the current class whenever it thinks you might be using super().

+1 on super(self).foo. It's SomeLongClassName we want to get rid of, not self. As a bonus, super() and super(cls) have obvious semantics.

At least +0 from me too.

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