Am going to sign out of this discussion. It would not be correct to say it is reaching the point of diminishing returns. In fact for myself it has turned more interesting. But its turned a bit esoteric. Have been doing up some more reading and I drew a few conclusions for myself
* Terms don't mean the same across languages. In fact they may not even mean the same within programmers of the same language. (eg. metaclasses and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2676007/what-is-rubys-analog-to-python-metaclasses ) * I think the semantics need to be evaluated in the context of what capabilities are imparted. Incidentally I got much more confused about metaclasses in other langs, though I'm going to probably not continue with seeking more there at the moment. But I think my comfort persists that Python has the necessary constructs to support various usecases I could think of, and thats good enough for the moment. Much of the runtime capability enhancement is available via classes and construction time via metaclasses (the point Saager was driving). I think I got that. These are powerful tools at a programmers disposal. _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
