Hi,<div><br></div><div>In a recent thread <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/52772">http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/52772</a> it was proposed that <font face="courier new, monospace">.fill(.)</font> should return <font face="courier new, monospace">self</font> as an alternative for a trivial two-liner.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I&#39;m raising now the question: what if all in-place operations indeed could return <font face="courier new, monospace">self</font>? How bad this would be? A &#39;strong&#39; counter argument may be found at <a href="http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/038855.html">http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/038855.html</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But anyway, at least for me. it would be much more straightforward to implement simple mini dsl&#39;s (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language</a>) a much more straightforward manner.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What do you think?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-eat</div><div><br></div><div>P.S. FWIW, if this idea really gains momentum obviously I&#39;m volunteering to create a PR of it.</div>