[Python-Dev] Extended Function syntax

[Michael Hudson]

Oren Tirosh <oren-py-d@hishome.net> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:22:52PM +0000, Michael Hudson wrote:
>> 
>> So we're around to suggesting 
>> 
>> def <arbitrary-rvalue>(params):
>>     ...
>
> I hope you're joking...

Well, not entirely.  I was more trying to tease out of you what you
intended.

> Just in case you are not: a fully-qualified name consists of identifiers 
> separated by dots.

I hadn't seen the phrase "fully-qualified name" used in this thread;
it wasn't obvious to me that any such limitation was implied.  I may
have missed something, of course.

> It's not an arbitrary expression. At least that's how 
> it works in the Python module namespace.

But as a generalisation of "foo=new.function(CODE, GLOBS, 'foo')",
what I mentioned would be valid too.  I'm not sure it's *sensible*,
but that's a different kettle of fish...

Cheers,
M.

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