[Python-Dev] Replacing slots with addmembers() (original) (raw)

Michel Pelletier michel@zope.com
Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:21:01 -0800

Michael McLay wrote:

Tim suggested that the type checking feature might be enough to get the patch rejected. For the moment let's assume I had not added that feature.

Given this assumption, i like your patch and the spelling and think it is reasonable.

Without the assumption, I would suggest you throw down some details on the types-sig list. Lots of folks have ideas and its a rather hot topic for some (but the discussion has always been very civil!).

I for one, would like to revive the type checking discussion because it's a sticky problem that needs to be solved. So far, there have been a few different proposed solutions. PaulP proposed and implemented a prototype that did flexible type checking. I proposed (PEP 245) an interface syntax that is somewhat orthogonal to that. Clark Evans also talks about type checking in PEP 246.

The patch does still makes adding memberdescriptors more consistent with the syntax used to add properties.

I agree.

-Michel