Steve,
Quoting [Fisher, SM (Steve)] (Aug 15 2008):
It seems that I am a lone voice of dissent.
No, you're not. I'm just too tight in terms of time to have a free hour to think everything through. My initial plan was to have a look at Paul's code before replying, because I don't feel very comfortable with the way he has been setting things up so far. But I'm not able to give a formal yay or nay (and my rationale) at this point. My feeling is, that Paul is trying to build something like an abstract interface in Python, allowing to use different implementations. But in my understanding this is not really Pythonesc, it more smells like Java to me (which is no surprise as he is working in the a Java environment at VU). I'll try to gather my thoughts over the weekend, ok?
You never know if the silent lurkers on the list, like me, agree, or disagree, or if they are ignorant to the topic at hand... ;-) Unless they post disagreement, you can safely asume one of the other two options: http://xkcd.com/386/ :-)
This one Is really funny! Regards Hartmut