GeezerVison

On 28 December 2017 at 04:22, Ethan Smith <ethan at ethanhs.me> wrote:
> Okay, if there is no further feedback, I will work on a singledispatchmethod
> decorator like partialmethod.
>
> For the future perhaps, would it not be possible to tell that the passed
> argument is a descriptor/function and dispatch to the correct
> implementation, thus not needing two functions for essentially the same
> thing?
>
> It seems more straightforward to make the implementation a bit more complex
> to provide a single, simple API to users.

"Add 'method' to the decorator name when decorating a method" is a
pretty simple rule to remember - it's much easier than "Add
'arg_index=1'" (which is a comparatively arbitrary adjustment that
requires a fairly in depth understanding of both the descriptor
protocol and type-based function dispatch to follow).

And you need the change to be explicitly opt-in *somehow*, in order to
avoid breaking any existing code that relies on methods decorated with
"singledispatch" dispatching on the bound class.

Cheers,
Nick.

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