At 10:21 AM 1/17/05 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Heh. As long as you're going to continue the electrical metaphor, why not
> just call them transformers and appliances?
Please don't. Transformer is commonly used in all sorts of contexts.
But appliances applies mostly to kitchenware and the occ
> Heh. As long as you're going to continue the electrical metaphor, why not
> just call them transformers and appliances?
Please don't. Transformer is commonly used in all sorts of contexts.
But appliances applies mostly to kitchenware and the occasional
marketing term for cheap computers.
The e
Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> Heh. As long as you're going to continue the electrical metaphor,
> why not just call them transformers and appliances? [ ... ]
Next we'll see Appliance-Oriented Programming ;-)
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At 01:49 AM 1/17/05 -0500, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 13:00 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> """One type is the "extender", ...
> By contrast, an "independent adapter" ...
I really like the way this part of the PEP is sounding, since it really
captures two almost, but not quite, com
Guido van Rossum wrote:
Typechecking can be trivially defined in terms of adaptation:
def typecheck(x, T):
y = adapt(x, T)
if y is x:
return y
raise TypeError("...")
Assuming the type error displayed contains information on T, the caller can then
trivially correct the type error by
On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 13:00 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> """One type is the "extender", ...
> By contrast, an "independent adapter" ...
I really like the way this part of the PEP is sounding, since it really
captures two almost, but not quite, completely different use-cases, the
confusion betw
At 09:15 AM 1/16/05 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Given the many and various issues with automamtic adaptation
(transitivity, lossiness, statelessness, and apparently more still)
that might be a better approach.
Actually, I think Clark, Alex, and I are rapidly converging on a relatively
simple co
The various PEP 246 threads are dead AFAIC -- I won't ever have the
time to read them in full length, and because I haven't followed them
I don't get much of the discussion that's still going on.
I hear that Clark and Alex are going to do a revision of the PEP; I'm
looking forward to the results.
