I'm leaning towards a -0.5 right now myself, simply because of the ambiguities that have been mentioned, python is anything but ambiguous, and that's a distinction I like about it, in every case I can think of python does what you'd expect without random oh, but there is this qualifier in this context .. (*cough* perl *cough* ruby *cough*).. even if I think I like the syntax, it doesn't really make sense to implement it at this time, or likely ever.

I got the inspiration for the idea from delphi/pascal, but in retrospect it turns out that the primary large (~1million lines) commercial app I worked on where we used that syntax (heavily I might add), they started to phase out the use of the with statement all over the code because of these same abiguities creating obscure difficult to track down bugs.

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
Prozacgod <prozacgod@...> writes:
>
> My main motivation most likely is just that it would open up some very
> interesting meta-programing or dynamic programming opportunities, variables
> that exists entirely programmatically without the prefix of
> object_instance.foo, surely just syntactical sugar to some (or even most) -

This sounds very PHP-like (doing indirections like $$foo because there isn't any
powerful introspection or OO system, and many things (e.g. functions, classes)
aren't first-class objects and can't be passed as parameters). I don't think
Python should grow something like that; instead people should learn more
structured ways of accessing data. getattr() and friends are powerful enough for
playing access tricks.

(in other words: -1 from me)


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