[Python-3000] Removing __var

[Guido van Rossum]

I'm on the fence about dropping __var (some people back in the days
*begged* for it, and it had nothing to do with super; I wonder what
they think now).

But I'm all for adding syntactic sugar to Py3k. Can someone please
draft a proto-PEP? I think the compiler could treat super as a
reserved word and turn super.foo(args) into __super__(<thisclass>,
self).foo(args). Or something. Please be sure you understand the
issues (e.g. you can't rely on self.__class__). It would be great if
it worked inside class methods too. For static methods it don't see
how it ca work since there's no instance; or perhaps it should just
use the static hierarchy? Try not to go overboard; KISS etc.

--Guido

On 9/24/06, Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer.com> wrote:
> Christian Tanzer wrote:
>
> > I don't use __ for `private`, I use it for making cooperative super
> > calls (and `__super` occurs 1397 in my sandbox).
>
> I think you might be confusing the symptom for the disease. To me, your mail
> means that Py3k should grow some syntactic sugar for super calls. I guess if
> that happens, you won't be missing __.
>
> Giovanni Bajo
>
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