Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2

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Date	Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:42:31 -0400
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On 4/11/2013 9:57 PM, Mark Janssen wrote:
> Okay peeps, I'm re-opening this thread, because despite being hijacked
> by naysayers, the merit of the underlying idea I think still has not
> been communicated or perceived adequately.
Mark, this proposal is out of place on a Python list, because it 
proposes an object methodology radically different from any that is 
implemented in Python now, or is even remotely likely to be implemented 
in Python in the future.

Everyone else, there's no need to skewer Mark for off-topic things like 
tweets on topics other than Python.  We can be civil, surely.

--Ned.

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Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-04-12 07:42 -0400

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