[Python-Dev] A thought on generic functions (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri May 30 01:23:25 CEST 2008

Greg Ewing wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

I don't think it would actually be that much worse - something like typetools.ProxyMixin would just involve a whole series of register calls instead of method definitions. I wouldn't expect the total amount of code involved to change much. I'm not thinking about the xxx methods, they're an aberration. I'm thinking about all the user-defined methods and attributes that get caught in one go by the getattr method of the proxy.

Ah, I see what you mean. That's where the generic system itself needs to be based on generic functions - then you can hook the lookup function so that proxies get looked up based on their target type rather than the fact they're a proxy. It all gets very brain bending and self referential, which is when folks tend to throw generics in the 'too complicated' basket ;)

Cheers, Nick.

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