Re: [Pythius-developers] python metaclasses

[Frank T. <ft...@ne...>]

Shae Erisson, at 11:55 +0200 on 2001-11-04, wrote:

   A metaclass specifies how classes work. Python has multiple
   inheritance, Java does not. A metaclass object in Python could
   specify that Python cannot do multiple inheritance.

   A particular metaclass instance could let Python have only instances
   and instance inheritance/delegation like Javascript, NewtonScript,
   and Self.

It helps a little.  Metaclasses are such a divergence from the concept of
statically-defined classes, though, that it might take me a while to
digest what magic you can do with them.

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Frank Tobin		http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/