[Python-3000] PEP 3124 - Overloading, Generic Functions, Interfaces, etc. (original) (raw)

Neal Norwitz nnorwitz at gmail.com
Fri May 11 20:29:46 CEST 2007

On 5/11/07, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

On 11/05/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > I'm now even more of the opinion that this is too > complicated for Python's first generic function system. > "If it's hard to explain, it's probably a bad idea."

Hmm. My view is that it is simple to explain, but unfortunately Phillip's explanation in the PEP is not that simple explanation :-(

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I would argue that the PEP could be very simple if it restricted itself to the basic idea.

Paul,

Could you write up the simple version that you would use instead?

n

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