> more about it. Needless to say, my notes benefited much from the > comments on this list. You can find these notes here: > > http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/python_comments.html#interfaces > > I'll welcome any comments.
Nice work. One wee point is that the term prorocol is an OOP community term rather than a Python community. Interfaces are a way to enforce protocols in certain languages (usually but not always statically typed, eg both Java(statically typed) and Visual Basic (dynamically typed - sort of) both support interfaces). The term protocol has been widely used in OOP since the 1970's and is commonly found in the literature of Smalltallk, Lisp and Objective C. The latter has language constructs that explicitly support protocols, as well as interfaces. (This leads to some subtle capabilities of ObjectiveC which are mainly of interest to academics! :-) Regards, Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
