[Python-3000] pep 3124 plans (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Jul 19 16:07:09 CEST 2007


On 7/19/07, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

On 19/07/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > The only approach to retroactive generification that I approve of is > replacing the entire object with a wrapper of sorts, e.g. > > foo = generify(foo)

Which (again, just to clarify) means that you would require that generic functions be introduced by a decorator? @generic def foo(): pass (your explicit equivalent would be for "after the fact" conversion to a generic).

Yes.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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