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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 23:17:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 08:40:26 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects
> royalties:
> 
>> On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 08:28:07 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>
>>> The C++ enum-class is scoped and strongly typed, thus a bit
>>> restrictive.
>>> Implicit conversion (e.g. to int or char) is not supported.
>>
>> Since Python supports multiple inheritance, you can define a subclass
>> which inherits from both enum and, say, int. Or enum and str.
> 
> Meh.

Along with C3 linearization?

Until C++ gets its own equivalent feature, then suddenly it’ll be not-meh.

You were a bit excited over metaclasses for a while back there, weren’t 
you? Until you realized it would never work, because classes are not 
objects in C++.