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

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Sat May 12 21:03:05 CEST 2007

On 5/12/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

At 01:43 PM 5/12/2007 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:

In practice, @around is mostly used for application-defined special cases, and there is no higher authority than the application who needs to override things. If a library needs special combinators internally, it's better off making them lower-than- at around precedence. Normal, before, and after methods are usually adequate for libraries. (Aside from special-purpose combinators like the @discount example.)

(1) Would it be reaonable to say this in the PEP?

(2) Would it be reasonable to leave out (or at least, leave for another PEP) the extension methods like discount?

-jJ

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