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

Tim Peters tim.one at comcast.net
Wed Jan 21 20:36:07 EST 2004

[Barry Warsaw]

... I'd love it if we could come up with a different term for these beasts that "new style classes".

Then let me suggest ectomorphic classes, as opposed to the previous endomorphic classes. Roll-your-own classes can be called mesomorphic classes. Extension classes can be called paleomorphic classes. Then there's a precise term for each kind, and bystanders are automically informed by the very terminology used that their lives are too short to worry about the distinctions being drawn .

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