Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Is the trailing _ really necessary?

[Christopher P. <pet...@gm...>]

On 7/2/05, Pierce T. Wetter III <pi...@ma...> wrote:
>   Yeah, if there is a conflict I see the problem, but couldn't pyobjc
> use the version without the _ when there wasn't a conflict?

Because of categories and other "doodads of extension", it is possible
for other pieces of code to extend the classes in ways you can't know.
 You could potentially do a trade-off at run-time, but I think the
consistency of simply transliterating a ':' into a '_' is much easier.

I understand the desire to conceive of the method call as something
akin to optional keywords in Python, but they are definately not.=20
They may be polymorphic from one-another, but they are distinct
messages, as in Smalltalk.

Chris
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