<div dir="auto">But I do stand corrected. I had forgotten that.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 30, 2017 3:49 PM, "Greg Ewing" <<a href="mailto:greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz">greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Serhiy Storchaka wrote:<br>
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In early ages of C structures didn't create namespaces, and member names were globals.<br>
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That would certainly explain the origins of it, but I'm<br>
pretty sure it wasn't the case by the time Python was<br>
invented. So Guido must have liked it for other reasons.<br>
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-- <br>
Greg<br>
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