Re: class proposal 2

Mark Hahn <[email protected]>:

> I've got a two-tier class proposal that is more concrete than my old one.
> It is mostly based on Serge's proposal but I feel Paul's thinking is
> incorporated.  As always feel free to shoot holes in it.

This looks interesting, but something doesn't seem quite right about
it. If class methods are to be methods of the class in the same way
that instance methods are methods of the instance, they should be kept
in the instance-method-area of the class's class, not in the class.

Classes in this proposal don't seem to have classes. In other words,
they're not themselves objects within their own paradigm.  In this
respect, they're more like old-style Python classes.  To a Python
person, this will seem like a backward step.

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