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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 4, 2013, at 2:34 AM, Brett Cannon <<a href="mailto:brett@python.org">brett@python.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">The loss of the ability to figure out the class from an unbound method seems quite an annoying step back from an introspection point of view.<br></blockquote><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">It's only annoying if you take the perspective that methods are somehow special compared to functions. With the removal of bound class methods that makes methods == functions that are an attribute on a class. And when you take that perspective it makes having anything special about methods seem wrong. It also makes adding a function to a class post-class creation make more sense since there is no difference technically.</div></blockquote></div><br><div>Well said, Brett. </div><div>This is a nice summary.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Raymond</div></body></html>
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