Re: This is kind of cool

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:51:29 -0700 Paul Prescod <[email protected]> wrote:

> So I went to a talk today at my local XML user's group meeting. There 
> were two intersting bits. The first was that the speaker actually spoke 
> mostly about programming languages and very little about XML. The second 
> was the reference programming language he used was Python. He referred 
> several times to stackless and said it was good stuff (even if not a new 
> idea). As an aside, he was very much in favour of meta-language like 
> features like continuations and operator overloading. But anyhow he says 
> he was annoyed by a case when he had to change a Python function into a 
> class because he couldn't do operator overloading on functions. If only 
> he had been using Prothon!
> 
> def foo():
>          return 3
> 
> def foo.add_(other):
>          return 2 + other
> 
> print foo + foo()
> 
Several times the subject of Python functions not being subclassable has
come up on comp.lang.python. I even wrote a Python 2.3.3 patch to allow
it and announced it on python.announce. I do not think anyone noticed.
But Prothon is more flexible in this matter.

Lenard Lindstrom
<[email protected]>