[Python-3000] PEP for Metaclasses in Python 3000 (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sat Mar 10 22:08:35 CET 2007

At 12:40 PM 3/10/2007 -0800, Josiah Carlson wrote:

Talin <talin at acm.org> wrote: > I strongly feel that this makes using metaclasses way too complex. A > person wanting to create a C struct or a database record should simply > have to say "metaclass=cstruct" - they shouldn't have to declare a bunch > of individual pieces, all of which have to match with each other. > There's no utility in being able to "mix n' match" metaclasses and dicts. > > In any case, we're just going over old ground here.

Great! If there is no need to mix and match metaclasses and dicts arbitrarily, then there is no need to pass alternate parameters to the dictionary construction method,

Er, wha? Those two things are utterly unrelated.

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