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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 07:01:44 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 08:46:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects
> royalties:
> 
>> On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 07:59:04 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>
>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects
>>> royalties:
>>> 
>>>> Until you realized it would never work, because classes are not
>>>> objects in C++.
>>> 
>>> :-D     WTF you talkin', Willis? Ye nae true Scotman fallacy?
>>
>> You tell me: does C++ accept “true Scotsmen” among its users/features,
>> or not?
> 
> C++ provides many forms of programming, including object-oriented
> programming.

But no metaclasses, like Python does.

I came up with an interesting use for them, to allow convenient definition 
of a hierarchy of exception classes representing return codes from a given 
API. More details in the “Uses For Metaclasses” notebook in this 
collection <https://gitlab.com/ldo/python_topics_notebooks/>.