On 20 Jan 2005, at 12:07, Guido van Rossum wrote:
The first problem is what I'd call incomplete duck typing.
Confit de canard-typing?
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Phillip, it looks like you're not going to give up. :) I really don't
want to accept your proposal into core Python, but I think you ought
to be able to implement everything you propose as part of PEAK (or
whatever other framework).
Therefore, rather than continuing to argue over the merits of you
[Guido van Rossum]
> There's one other problem that Phillip tries to tackle in his
> proposal: how to implement the "rich" version of an interface if all
> you've got is a partial implementation (e.g. you might have readline()
> but you need readlines()). I think this problem is worthy of a
> solut
At 03:07 AM 1/20/05 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Phillip worries that solving this with interfaces would cause a
proliferation of "partial sequence" interfaces representing the needs
of various libraries. Part of his proposal comes down to having a way
to declare that some class C implements some
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 11:07, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I'd also like to explore ways of creating partial interfaces on the
> fly. For example, if we need only the read() and readlines() methods
> of the file protocol, maybe we could declare that as follows::
>
> def foo(f: file['read', 'readline
[Phillip J. Eby]
> I've revised the draft today to simplify the terminology, discussing only
> two broad classes of adapters. Since Clark's pending proposals for PEP 246
> align well with the concept of "extenders" vs. "independent adapters", I've
> refocused my PEP to focus exclusively on adding
I've revised the draft today to simplify the terminology, discussing only
two broad classes of adapters. Since Clark's pending proposals for PEP 246
align well with the concept of "extenders" vs. "independent adapters", I've
refocused my PEP to focus exclusively on adding support for "extenders
