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yxhuvud on May 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: A core Python committer's (very shallow) thoughts ...

Make the language a bit more dynamic and there are no need whatsoever for Factory constructors.

tomp on May 14, 2012 [–]

Just a bit more expressive, actually. Make classes first-class entities, and make them callable, and you can easily do what Python does, but in a statically-typed manner.

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