[Python-Dev] Inheritance vs composition in backcompat (PEP521) (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Oct 2 17:59:52 EDT 2017


Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven at gmail.com> wrote

I don't mind this (or Nathaniel ;-) being academic. The backwards incompatibility issue I've just described applies to any extension via composition, if the underlying type/protocol grows new members (like the CM protocol would have gained suspend and resume in PEP521).

Since you seem to have a good grasp on this issue, does PEP 550 suffer from the same problem? (Or PEP 555, for that matter? :-)

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