I've gotten very enthusiastic about the 'with' statement in python, and while reading the <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343/">PEP</a>, there's a discussion about how hiding flow-control can make code 'inscrutible.' I'm afraid a full generic functions implementation will make too many ways to hide flow-control (e.g. doIt.when).
So even though, I agree generic functions are the general case, 'my python' wouldn't have it.
schuyler - 2006-04-06 19:21:42
I've gotten very enthusiastic about the 'with' statement in python, and while reading the <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343/">PEP</a>, there's a discussion about how hiding flow-control can make code 'inscrutible.' I'm afraid a full generic functions implementation will make too many ways to hide flow-control (e.g. doIt.when). So even though, I agree generic functions are the general case, 'my python' wouldn't have it.