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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-08-10 01:54:40 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-08-10 01:54:40 (GMT) |
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New warnings to the uninitiated reader.
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diff --git a/Demo/metaclasses/index.html b/Demo/metaclasses/index.html index 77186cc..1a54cdd 100644 --- a/Demo/metaclasses/index.html +++ b/Demo/metaclasses/index.html @@ -9,8 +9,16 @@ <H1>Metaclasses in Python 1.5</H1> <H2>(A.k.a. The Killer Joke :-)</H2> -<P><b>Note: this document describes a feature only released in Python -1.5 (starting with 1.5a3).</b> +<HR> + +(<i>Postscript:</i> reading this essay is probably not the best way to +understand the metaclass hook described here. See a <A +HREF="meta-vladimir.txt">message posted by Vladimir Marangozov</A> +which may give a gentler introduction to the matter. You may also +want to search Deja News for messages with "metaclass" in the subject +posted to comp.lang.python in July and August 1998.) + +<HR> <P>In previous Python releases (and still in 1.5), there is something called the ``Don Beaudry hook'', after its inventor and champion. @@ -27,8 +35,7 @@ there's something dark to it.) <P>(On first reading, you may want to skip directly to the examples in the section "Writing Metaclasses in Python" below, unless you want -your head to explode.) (XXX I should really restructure this document -to place the historic notes last. After 1.5a4 is released...) +your head to explode.) <P> |