IDEA for super (Re: [Python-Dev] Classes and Metaclasses in Smalltalk) (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu, 03 May 2001 15:39:08 +1200 (NZST)

Guido:

Will we need to add a "::" operator to Python???

If so, I hope we can find a syntax that doesn't remind one of C++ so much...

I have an idea!

How about spelling super(self, MyBaseClass) as

MyBaseClass[self]

This can be thought of as a sort of "cast" which turns self into an object which behaves like it were an instance of MyBaseClass. Then we can write

MyBaseClass[self].foo(args)

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