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A Revised Rational Proposal

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Mon Dec 27 10:37:19 EST 2004 
Skip Montanaro wrote:

>     Mike> ... or making them old-style classes, which is discouraged.
> 
> Since when is use of old-style classes discouraged?
> 

Well, since new-style classes came along, surely? I should have thought 
the obvious way to move forward was to only use old-style classes when 
their incompatible-with-type-based-classes behavior is absolutely required.

Though personally I should have said "use of new-style classes is 
encouraged". I agree that there's no real need to change existing code 
just for the sake of it, but it would be interesting to see just how 
much existing code fails when preceded by the 1.5.2--to-2.4-compatible (?)

__metaclass__ = type

guessing-not-that-much-ly y'rs  - steve
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