The point is that at the moment to set this sort of api up requires a lot of work, defeating 50% of the value i.e. to define a new function with the attribute access behaviour requires defining each individual function to return a middle step object that has the attribute of the next function, so you can't define a function in plain english.
e.g.

def insert_into(x, y):
    ...

def insert(x):
    class Return:
        def into(self, y):
            return insert_into(x, y)
    return Return()

insert.into = insert_into

is a very long way to say:

def insert(x)._into(y):
    ...

and that is without the actual logic and for only 2 positional args.


> But why would you? It's ugly if spelled like that, and your whole argument is that the "interspersed arguments" form is better. If you just want to pass the function to something that expects "normal" argument conventions, lambda x,y: insert(x).into(y) does what you want.

The point is so that in code that expects dynamically called functions or to be able to reference the function by name it needs to have a single name that follows backward compatible naming conventions. I would be happy with it being on the onus of the developer in question to add a wrapping function, less happy than if it was added by default but it would still be a saving (and could maybe be in a decorator or something).


> I've never heard anyone else suggest anything like this, so you might want to consider that the annoyance you feel is not a common reaction...

I know lots of people that have had this reaction but just shrugged it off as "the way things are", which would seem like a good way to stagnate a language, so I thought I would ask.
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