[Python-Dev] PEP 435 -- Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Apr 26 02:54:39 CEST 2013
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Barry Warsaw<barry at python.org> wrote:
I just can't get over the weirdness of a class having attributes which are actual instances of itself.
I wonder how many programmers will even notice that this characteristic exists.
Exactly the same weirdness occurs in Java, but I had never thought about it until this discussion came up, and I wondered "Hmmm... seems like this ought to happen in Java too", tried it out, and found that it did.
-- Greg
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