On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 11:18:41 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > >> Incidentally, although super() is useful, it's not perfect, and this is >> one of my grievances with it: that a user can, based upon the name, draw >> an inaccurate assumption about what it does without reading or fully >> understanding the documentation on it, which might then result in >> misusing it. > > Wait a second... are you saying that the Python developers created an > advanced language feature relating to multiple inheritance, one of the > most complex OOP concepts around, so difficult that most other languages > simply prohibit it completely, and it wasn't instantly and correctly > intuited by every single programmer based only on the name? Oh my stars, > somebody call Ranting Rick, he needs to write a PyWart post to expose > this scandal!!!
Mostly I'm saying that super() is badly named. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
