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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Python classes: Simplify?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:55:57 -0400
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:17:35 -0700, Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:51 AM, Steven Lehar <slehar@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Furthermore, why not call the
> > initialization function after the class name as is done in other languages?
> 
> Yech. That would add another step to renaming a class and make
> referring to the superclass initializer method rather difficult. It
> would also break the "all special methods have underscored names"
> rule.
>

	Not to mention the dangling consideration of what to do with the
real constructor: __new__()
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