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Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Mar 15 18:04:55 CET 2005

At 10:36 PM 3/15/05 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

I discussed this approach with Guido in private e-mail a few months back during discussion about an article I was writing for DDJ about decorators. We also discussed something very similar to 'updatemeta()', but never settled on a name. Originally he wanted me to PEP the whole thing, but he wanted it to include optional type declaration info, so you can probably see why I haven't done anything on that yet. :) However, if we can define a signature format that allows for type declaration, I imagine there'd be little problem with moving forward on it. But one of the reasons for providing 'updatemeta' is so that additional metadata (like signature) can later be added transparently.

Yes, exactly.

Does deciding whether or not to supply the function really need to be dependent on whether or not a format for signature has been chosen?

Um, no. Why would you think that?

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