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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 08:58:23 -0700
Subject: Re: What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?
From: Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com>
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>> Mostly I'm saying that super() is badly named.
>
> What else would you call a function that does lookups on the current
> object's superclasses?

^.  You make a symbol for it.  ^__init__(foo, bar)

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MarkJ
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