New warnings to the uninitiated reader.

gvanrossum · gvanrossum · commit d895749b61da · 1998-08-10T01:54:40.000Z
diff --git 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 @@ <H2>(A.k.a. The Killer Joke :-)</H2>
 
 <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>
 
