From: nathan at islanddata.com (Nathan Clegg)
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:17:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Bug or feature?
In-Reply-To: <m3zp378yqs.fsf@atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <XFMail.990514111759.nathan@islanddata.com>
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>> Really?  Because class variables are a feature found in other OO
>> languages.  
> 
> Python is not those langauges.

I think the idea here is not that "python should follow the example of
other languages" but that OO, as a principle, contains several concepts,
including that of class variables vs. instance variables.  Both the
definition and behavior of python's class-scoped variables match those of
C++ and other languages' class variables.  So...why aren't they class
variables??

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Nathan Clegg
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