New submission from Jorgen Harmse :
The description of classes mentions twice that methods are like C++ virtual
member functions, but the truth is a bit stranger.
Even __init__ seems to act like a virtual function, so there is no guarantee
that the base-class part of a derived-class instance
Jorgen Harmse added the comment:
There may be more people who use Python, but there are strange semantics that
cause problems even for experienced Python programmers. For example,
assign-by-reference (apparently built without considering the solutions
available in MatLab & R) freque
Jorgen Harmse added the comment:
Is van Rossum serious? I responded to the comments on my report. The action is
to clarify the documentation, probably including a warning against multiple
inheritance.
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