Re: Objects: Now or forever (well, for a while) hold your peace

2004-02-19 Thread Michal Wallace
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Dan Sugalski wrote: > I tried to unify attributes and properties--I really did. The > problem is that they're horribly semantically different. Attributes > are class private and guaranteed across all objects of a class, > while properties are ad hoc and can be thrown on anythi

Re: Objects: Now or forever (well, for a while) hold your peace

2004-02-19 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:21 AM -0800 2/19/04, Steve Fink wrote: On Feb-19, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 7:30 PM -0500 2/18/04, Simon Glover wrote: > One really pedantic comment: wouldn't it make sense to rename the > fetchmethod op to fetchmeth, for consistency with callmeth, tailcallmeth > etc? Good point. I'll chang

Re: Objects: Now or forever (well, for a while) hold your peace

2004-02-19 Thread Melvin Smith
At 01:34 PM 2/19/2004 -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 10:21 AM -0800 2/19/04, Steve Fink wrote: On Feb-19, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 7:30 PM -0500 2/18/04, Simon Glover wrote: > One really pedantic comment: wouldn't it make sense to rename the > fetchmethod op to fetchmeth, for consistency with callm

Re: Objects: Now or forever (well, for a while) hold your peace

2004-02-19 Thread Steve Fink
On Feb-19, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 7:30 PM -0500 2/18/04, Simon Glover wrote: > > One really pedantic comment: wouldn't it make sense to rename the > > fetchmethod op to fetchmeth, for consistency with callmeth, tailcallmeth > > etc? > > Good point. I'll change that, then. D yo reall wan t repea

Re: Objects: Now or forever (well, for a while) hold your peace

2004-02-19 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:30 PM -0500 2/18/04, Simon Glover wrote: One really pedantic comment: wouldn't it make sense to rename the fetchmethod op to fetchmeth, for consistency with callmeth, tailcallmeth etc? Good point. I'll change that, then. -- Dan ---

Re: Objects: Now or forever (well, for a while) hold your peace

2004-02-19 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:33 PM -0500 2/18/04, Michal Wallace wrote: You said in an earlier post that python won't be able to talk to objects with attributes without a syntax change. I don't think a syntax change will be required -- we just need a wrapper class. But it would be *SO* much nicer if properties and attrib

Re: Objects: Now or forever (well, for a while) hold your peace

2004-02-19 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to let everyone know, if there aren't any comments on the scheme > in PDD 15, I'm going to implement it as-is and be done with it, at > least for now. Good. Make it running. > That does, FWIW, meet the criteria for a 0.1.0 release for the 29th. The

Re: Objects: Now or forever (well, for a while) hold your peace

2004-02-18 Thread Simon Glover
One really pedantic comment: wouldn't it make sense to rename the fetchmethod op to fetchmeth, for consistency with callmeth, tailcallmeth etc? Simon

Re: Objects: Now or forever (well, for a while) hold your peace

2004-02-18 Thread Michal Wallace
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Just to let everyone know, if there aren't any comments on the scheme > in PDD 15, I'm going to implement it as-is and be done with it, at > least for now. This would be a good time to speak up--can't guarantee > that I'll put the changes in for this rev,

Objects: Now or forever (well, for a while) hold your peace

2004-02-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
Just to let everyone know, if there aren't any comments on the scheme in PDD 15, I'm going to implement it as-is and be done with it, at least for now. This would be a good time to speak up--can't guarantee that I'll put the changes in for this rev, but I certainly can't think about it if I don