[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 292, Simpler String Substitutions

[Christian Tismer]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [Guido, quotes Christian]
> 
>>>The following statements are ordered by increasing hate.
>>>1 - I do hate the idea of introducing a "$" sign at all.
>>>2 - giving "$" special meaning in strings via a module
>>>3 - doing it as a builtin function
>>>4 - allowing it to address local/global variables
>>
> 
> [and adds]
> 
>>Doesn't 4 contradict your +1 on allvars()?
> 
> 
> Since Christian's reply only increased the apparent contradiction, allow me
> to channel:  they are ordered by increasing hate, but starting at the
> bottom.  s/increasing/decreasing/ in his original, or s/hate/love/, and you
> can continue to read it in the top-down Dutch way <wink>.

Huh?
Reading from top to bottom, as I used to, I see increasing
numbers, which are in the same order as the "increasing hate"
(not a linear function, but the same ordering).

4 - allowing it to address local/global variables
is what I hate the most.
This is in no contradiction to allvars(), which is simply
a function that puts some variables into a dict, therefore
deliberating the interpolation from variable access.

Where is the problem, please?

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