[Python-Dev] Problems with the new super()

[Isaac Morland]

On Fri, 2 May 2008, Greg Ewing wrote:

> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> The
>> alternative would be to make it a keyword, which seemed excessive
>> (plus, it would be odd if super() were a keyword when self is not).
>
> If it's really such a useful thing as to warrant so much
> magic to support it, then I think it deserves to have a
> keyword.
>
> Conversely, I would say that if it doesn't deserve a
> keyword, it also doesn't deserve that much magic.

One might even go further and say that if it's that magic, then it's a 
keyword by definition.

Certainly I would want a syntax-highlighting editor to highlight it 
somehow, and if the editor has a "rename" feature to rename a variable and 
replace all references to it (but not other uses of the same identifiers 
in different scope), then it probably should at least alert the programmer 
before allowing a rename to or from the magic name.

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