On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Here's an updated version of the PEP reflecting my recent suggestions on how to eliminate 'codef'.
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Also note that the final calling parentheses are mandatory, so that for example the following is invalid syntax:
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y = cocall f # INVALID
If this is the case, why not say "y= cocall f with (x)" or something like that instead of f(x)? When I see f(x), I think, "OK, so it's going to call f with the argument x then it will do something cocall-ish to it." But actually the reality is first it looks up the __cocall__ on f and only then passes in the args and kwargs. Of course, anyone who studies cocalls will learn how it really works before they get too deep into the theory behind them, but I still think it's kind of misleading for people new to the world of cocalling. I also suspect that Nick is right that we should probably try out something like "y = yield from cocall(f, *args, **kwargs)" and see if it catches on before resorting to a new keyword… -- Carl Johnson