On 4/25/2013 9:19 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Glenn Linderman <v+python at g.nevcal.com> wrote:
>> an enumeration of objects whose class defines __call__ would
>> not be so weird.
> Seriously? You'd complexificate the basic usage in order to cater for
> such an esoteric use case? The *only* use cases that matter at all for
> enum values are ints and strings, and even the latter could be
> considered a luxury when compared to other languages' enums.
No, I'd look for a solution/implementation that doesn't divide objects
into "plain" and "esoteric" cases. Py3 now treats everything as objects.
So an enumeration should be able to deal with any object as a value.
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