[Python-3000] PEP 3124 - Overloading, Generic Functions, Interfaces, etc. (original) (raw)
Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Thu May 10 20:50:08 CEST 2007
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On 10/05/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
By the way, I have gotten off-list notes of encouragement from a number of people who've said they hope the PEP makes it, so evidently it's not overwhelming to everyone. Unfortunately, it seems to be suffering a bit from Usenet Nod Syndrome among the people who are in favor of it.
I'll add my public +1 here, then.
OTOH, I do find the PEP to be too long and fairly hard to follow - as an example, the bit in the PEP saying
""" (to avoid copying the implementation):
from overloading import RuleSet
RuleSet(flatten).copy_rules((basestring,), (MyString,))"""
adds nothing to the point, but adds complexity which I suspect will simply put people off. OK, it's only 3 lines, but I believe that removing them will substantially improve the impact of that section, and lose nothing of importance. I'm sure there's more of the same, as well.
As I say, though, I am in favour of the idea - don't mistake criticism of the way it's presented as dislike of the concept!
Paul.
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