[Python-Dev] Meta-reflections (original) (raw)

Kevin Jacobs jacobs@penguin.theopalgroup.com
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:09:07 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, David Ascher wrote:

> > My take on this thread is that I think it's simply not going to happen > > that slots are going to act 100% like attributes except for > > performance/memory considerations. It would be nice, but if that had > > been possible, then they'd simply be an internal optimization and would > > have no syntactic impact. > > I'd like to know why else you think that?

Ye old poverty of the imagination argument, coupled with the assumption that Guido had time to finish what he'd started I guess =).

This is why I haven't unleashed a patch, even though I pretty much know exactly how to fix all of the problems we've noticed and make slots work as I imagine they should. Some of the things I heard Guido say at IPC10 lead me to believe that he has something up his sleeve wrt slots (specifically some plan about storing dicts in slots that do something nifty).

So I'm going to sit on my hands until Guido gets back into town and sets us all straight.

Thanks, -Kevin

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