[Python-Dev] New syntax for 'dynamic' attribute access

[Benji York]

Collin Winter wrote:
> On 2/12/07, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> I actually kind of like that.  The connection to pointer indirection
>> meshes well with the idea of indirectly figuring out what attribute to
>> access at runtime.
> 
> There's a connection, but I'd say it's the wrong one. In C, "x->y"
> dereferences x, while in Python, "x->y" would dereference y. That's
> just begging for trouble.

Then the syntax should obviously be "x<-y".

[insert in-Soviet-Russia-variables-dereference-you joke here]
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Benji York