Re: vote on prop keyword

"Mark Hahn" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.prothon.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Paul Prescod wrote:

> Anyhow, I think that a) the "prop" keyword is a good way of hiding the
> underlying machinary and b) the underlying machinary is probably fine
> but it just took me by surprise at first because it uses inheritance
> instead of either "special" slots (which I would expect from a
> language like Java) or wrapper objects (which I expect from Python).

I never did understand the Python wrapper object mechanism or I might have
considered it.  Does it have any advantages?

Detecting a specific type by the interpreter can be done in one comparisom.
Also I think my method is pretty clear and intuitive.  If tax "is a
property" then shouldn't it be a "Property" through inheritance?
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