Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Wed Dec 11 16:05:53 EST 2002

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Michele Simionato wrote:

> i.e. the same object is seen as a function inside the class scope and
> as an
> instance method outside the class scope. To me, this fact was quite
> surprising,
> I don't like to have a changing type depending on the context. Maybe a
> unique
> 'function' type for both functions and methods would have been a
> simpler
> solution.

But they're not the same.  Remember that first "self" argument;
functions and methods are handled differently, so a distinction needs to
be made.

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