On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 6:40:22 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:30:54 -0700, Mark Janssen wrote:
>
> > 1) It tried to make Object the parent of every class.
>
> Tried, and succeeded.
Oh? How about:
class superdict(dict):
"""I'm going to extend the dict type to include extra methods."""
class mixin():
"""Here we go."""
What is the parent of mixin?
> > No one's close enough to God to make that work.
>
> Non-sequitor. One doesn't need to be close to a deity to have a single
> root of the object hierarchy.
Loud voice: Boom!
> > 4?) It allowed
> > [reference] variables to be used as dict keys. This creates a parsing
> > difficulty for me, mentally. Keys should be direct, hashable values,
> > not hidden in a variable name.
>
> I don't even understand what you are talking about here. "[reference]
> variables"? What does that mean?
Nevermind. I was wrong on this one. My mental lexer threw an error on this
one whenever ppl used a variable as a key.
Cheer!
Mark
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