Steve Holden wrote: > George Sakkis wrote: >> On Mar 31, 10:41 pm, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> In a sentence, it's better than nothing but worse than anything. >> > So you are prepared to write off the voice of experience because some > random web pages contradict what Ed is saying? > > As Ed rightly points out, any sufficiently complex gun can end up > shooting you in the foot. > Lest my remarks should be thought disrespectful to Michele Simionato, I should point out that I am familiar with those comments, and they do correctly identify problems with super() which are in fact fundamental to any multiple inheritance scheme. So it was a little rude of me to refer to "some random web pages" there, and I apologize.
Ed is a good enough designer to avoid the corner cases. Strangely enough the one place where I have ended up making significant use of super() was in providing mixins for wxPython interface classes! regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
