On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 02:12:05PM +0000, Joseph Martinot-Lagarde wrote:
It could work with indexing, like:
key -> my_dict[]
instead of
key = my_dict[key]
That would have to be
key = my_dict['key']
With the possible exception of the typing module, I don't see when that would be useful.
There are proven uses for passing a name to a function. Any time that an object needs to know its own name, you have to pass it to the constructor. But I can't think of any cases where you would want to do something similar with item lookup.
Or even attribute lookup with a trailing dot:
attr -> my_object.
That fails the "grit on Uncle Timmy's monitor" test. The trailing dot is easy to miss.