[Python-3000] pep 3124 plans

Thu Jul 19 16:07:09 CEST 2007

On 7/19/07, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/07/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > The only approach to retroactive generification that I approve of is
> > replacing the entire object with a wrapper of sorts, e.g.
> >
> > foo = generify(foo)
>> Which (again, just to clarify) means that you would require that
> generic functions be introduced by a decorator?
>> @generic
> def foo():
> pass
>> (your explicit equivalent would be for "after the fact" conversion to
> a generic).

Yes.
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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)