July 25, 2007
3:57 a.m.
Ron Adam <rrr@ronadam.com> wrote:
And yes this is still a rather abstract idea. The question is would it be beneficial to generalize and formalize descriptors and properties? (but not necessarily in the exact manner I'm describing.)
I would argue no. Non-dotted assignments resulting in arbitrary code execution sounds to me like a metric ton of magic and a great way of confusing the hell out of any and all future readers of your code. I know I'm a curmudgeon when it comes to syntax, but I would really like to see a *sane* use-case for the potential feature (though I doubt one exists). - Josiah