[Python-Dev] can't assign to function call

[Greg Ewing]

Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> I am not the best person to answer because I go on to argue that this 
> syntax is not needed in Python at all (anything it can do can be 
> implemented with __setitem__ at no loss of clarity).

I would even argue that the proxy solution is even *better*
for that particular use case, because it makes both operations
look like forms of indexing, which they are.

-- 
Greg