glyph@divmod.com wrote:

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I really, really wish that every feature proposal for Python had to meet some burden of proof

Ben North wrote:

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This is what I understood the initial posting to python-ideas to be about.

glyph@divmod.com wrote:

I'm suggesting that the standards of the community in _evaluating_ to the proposals should be clearer

Perhaps I didn't need to take your initial comments personally then, sorry :-) I do see what you're pointing out: the later part of the "dynamic attribute" discussion was where the question of whether python really needs new syntax for this was addressed, and the outcome made the earlier discussion of "x.[y]" vs "x.(y)" vs "x.{y}" vs "x->y" etc. irrelevant. Ben.