From: aa8vb at vislab.epa.gov (Randall Hopper)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 17:40:46 GMT
Subject: Python IS slow ! [was] Re: Python too slow for real world
In-Reply-To: <3729E647.B38DFE72@appliedbiometrics.com>; from Christian Tismer on Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 07:20:07PM +0200
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Christian Tismer:
 |Randall Hopper wrote:
 |>
 |> Base class A calling subclass B's method M without declaring a virtual
 |> method M itself is very perverse IMO.
...
 |> Accessing attributes of a sibling base class united by a future subclass?
...

 |We were not talking style or how to do things, but theory. Existing code
 |would break.

Point taken.  No argument there.  I was a bit surprised to hear some folks
are doing such things, but I suppose if a semantic is possible in a
language, there will always be someone who will use it.

Randall




