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On Monday, February 11, 2013 7:52:24 AM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote:
> [...]
> But my statement wasn't based on my own knowledge of the stdlib, but
> rather on this:
>=20
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Rick Johnson wrote:
> > I'm a bit unnerved by the sum function. Summing a
> > sequence only makes sense if the sequence in question
> > contains /only/ numeric types. For that reason i decided
> > to create a special type for holding Numerics.
>=20
> Why create a special type if it already exists?

Because at the time i made this statement we were discussing 100% true OOP =
(you know, the kind of paradigm where object definition identifiers start w=
ith a capital letter? *estoeric-wink*), but more importantly because i don'=
t find the current implementation of array and list to be consistent.

> Yep. By the way, how does the help function fit into your wonderfully
> OOP model? What's it a method on?

Well since /all/ objects will have help available it should be defined Obje=
ct#help and then propagate downwards. But even true OOP languages need a fe=
w global functions... *gasp*... oh yes! A few that come to mind include:

 globals, locals, vars, compile, eval, exec, input, print, dir
=20
And don't forget, we still have module namespace to deal with!
=20
=20