[Python-3000] pep 3124 plans (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Jul 23 01:48:07 CEST 2007

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

You seem to be saying that the ability to put things in different places encourages disorganization.

No. What I'm saying is that there are conflicting organisational requirements here.

If the things being put in different places were independent and able to be reasoned about in isolation, everything would be fine. But they're not independent, because different overloadings of the same GF can interact, sometimes in subtle ways, and reasoning about their interactions is facilitated by being able to see all the relevant rules together.

Even if the rules don't, in fact, interact, it can be hard to convince yourself of this without being sure that you simultaneously know what all the rules are at some point in time.

-- Greg

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