[Python-Dev] RE: Hot-To Guide for Descriptors (original) (raw)

Neil Schemenauer nas-python at python.ca
Wed Jan 21 17:23:04 EST 2004

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 04:55:51PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:

I'd love it if we could come up with a different term for these beasts that "new style classes". Some day they won't be new any more, and may in fact be the only kind of classes in Python.

Yes. We should also rename 'newcompile.c' to 'astcompile.c' or something else before merging the AST branch. I've been on a chess kick recently and I find it humorous that the era of hyper-modern openings was about 80 years ago.

Neil

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