"Michele Simionato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The namedtuple recipe by Raymond Hettinger (http:// >code.activestate.com/recipes/500261) >is an interesting example of code generation. My own decorator module >use a similar >trick. Here code generation (plus eval/exec) is needed since you need >control on >the signature of a function. If we could change the signature of a >function (I think >this is possible in Python 3.0, I have to check) then we would not >need code >generation.
Right that is a definite counterexample. van Rooyen's folly is officially dead. It is stillborn. It has snuffed it. It lives no more. Thanks. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
