Re: Re: "proto" versus "newObject"

Mark Hahn wrote:
 >...
> 
> We used up a lot of messages deciding between Proto() and Proto.new()
> about a month ago here on the list.  At that time the concern was about
> using up the call_ so it wouldn't be available for other purposes, which
> I guess is just another way of saying that the namespaces overlap.  I
> argued for keeping the Python way and won.  The problem is that the
> "Proto()" construction technique is so fundamental to Python and it is
> not "broken".

It is not entirely broken but it also is not entirely explicit!

And it may be causing a lot of these problems. I really didn't care much 
about the namespace of the prototype until I saw what was happening with 
call_ and str_.

  Paul Prescod