On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 12:04:35 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > 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.
What else would you call a function that does lookups on the current object's superclasses? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
