On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 21:54:24 +1200 Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
On 24/06/20 5:20 am, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
suddently `Point(x, 0)` means something entirely different (it doesn't call Point.__new__, it doesn't lookup `x` in the locals or globals...).
This is one reason I would rather see something explicitly marking names to be bound, rather than making the binding case the default. E.g.
case Point(?x, 0):
This would also eliminate the need for the awkward leading-dot workaround for names to be looked up rather than bound.
That looks quite a bit better indeed, because it strongly suggests that something unusual is happening from the language's POV. Thank you for suggesting this.
One other thing that the PEP doesn't make clear -- is it possible to combine '=' and ':=' to match a keyword argument with a sub pattern and capture the result? I.e. can you write
case Spam(foo = foo_value := Blarg()):
Yuck :-S Regards Antoine.