Re: PEP 420: Implicit Namespace Packages

Barry Warsaw <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.import
Organization The Organization of Unorganized Woozalists
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On May 02, 2012, at 08:32 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>Both, actually. I had expected that new API (i.e. a new method of some kind)
>would be necessary, so it has elegance that this is not required.  OTOH,
>explicit type checking is despised in the OO world, and varying result types
>are disliked by Guido van Rossum (not sure whether this reservation applies
>to this case as well, or only to cases where the return type depends on the
>parameter types).

My understanding (and I'm sure Guido will correct me if I'm wrong) is that
it's the latter: return type should not depend on function argument values.

-Barry
_______________________________________________
Import-SIG mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/import-sig
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.