Re: [Tutor] Re: design questions: pythonic appraoch to ostriches

2005-04-25 Thread Alan Gauld
> (I took a brief detour into Common Lisp after joining > this list, not too long ago. Thanks Mr. Gauld.) YOu are welcome, everyone should at least dabble in Lisp if only because it teaches you so much about the fundamentals of programming. > method in a subclass. From my limited dealings with

RE: [Tutor] Re: design questions: pythonic appraoch to ostriches

2005-04-25 Thread Smith, Jeff
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg T >>Think about it in the abstract. The Bird class makes >>the statement: >>all >>birds fly. Then you want to turn around and define a >>Bird that >>doesn't. >>Even doing >> >>def fly: >> pass >> >>makes no sense since what