[Python-Dev] Type/class (original) (raw)

Gordon McMillan gmcm@hypernet.com
Sat, 12 May 2001 17:09:41 -0400

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[Guido]

It's an interesting journey! The book I am reading about this: "Putting Metaclasses to Work" by Ira Forman and Scott Danforth. http://cseng.awl.com/book/0,3828,0201433052,00.html

The two things that struck me most when I read that last year:

• How eminently ill-suited C++ is for this stuff (the book develops a framework in C++)

• a very convincing argument that if you derive C from A and B (whose metaclasses are not the same), the system must derive a metaclass for C, using MI from A and B's metaclasses.

duct-tape-skull-cap-advised-ly y'rs

• Gordon

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