[Python-Dev] python-dev Summary for 2003-03-16 through 2003-03-31 (original) (raw)

Zooko zooko@zooko.com
Wed, 02 Apr 2003 08:39:33 -0500

Brett Cannon <bac@OCF.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:

One point made about capabilities is that they partially go against the Pythonic grain. Since you have to pass capabilities specifically and shouldn't allow them to be inherited, it does not go with the way you tend to write Python code.

This doesn't make sense to me, and I don't recall a message which asserted it.

If capabilities were implemented as Python references, you could inherit capabilities (== references) from superclasses, just as you can currently do.

The rest looks like a good summary!

Regards,

Zooko

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