My bit of example code was merely to demonstrate that UNIVERSAL::can() from perl5 clearly has the problem that Andy Wardley worries about wrt "freezing" to a particular definition... Thus, it *may* be a good idea to *not* provide a user-code-level means of obtaining method handles, o
No. Python allows fetching a handle to the current method definition, and it seems a reasonable thing in some circumstances, so it needs to be supported. They may be the wrong answer in many circumstances, but that doesn't mean they're the wrong answer in all circumstances.
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