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

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Wed Jan 21 21:30:21 EST 2004

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 .

I'd be +1 on this being placed in the documentation, just to give readers a chuckle every time they read about classes. A little humor in the docs never hurt.

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