[Python-Dev] Classes and Metaclasses in Smalltalk (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Fri, 04 May 2001 16:25:08 +1200 (NZST)

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com>:

I think it has to do with terminology: when I say "inherit" I actually mean "the lookup is forwarded to the another object".

Some OO languages munge together the instance and inheritance relationships, but Python isn't one of them. Using terminology that way in the context of Python is guaranteed to cause massive confusion!

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