> From: Phillip J. Eby [mailto:pje at telecommunity.com]
>
> At 09:56 AM 10/28/03 +0100, Alex Martelli wrote:
> >AND, adaptation is not typecasting:
> >e.g y=adapt("23", int) should NOT succeed.
>
> And, why do you consider adaptation *not* to be typecasting?
> I always
> think of it as "give me X, rendered as a Y", which certainly
> sounds like a
> description of typecasting to me.
Because (IMO anyway) adaption is *not* "give me X, rendered as Y". Adaption is "here is an X, can it be used as a Y?".
They are two distinct concepts, although obviously there are crossover points. A string cannot be used as an int, although an int can be created from the string representation of an int.
Adaption should not involve any change to the underlying data - mutating operations on the adapted object should (attempt to) mutate the original object (assuming the adapted object and original object are not one and the same).
Tim Delaney
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