[Python-ideas] Dict-like object with property access

[Arnaud Delobelle]

On Jan 30, 2012 4:23 PM, "Massimo Di Pierro" <massimo.dipierro at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I do not think the issue is whether the people who use that semantic
understand it or not. I can assure you they do and they know when it is
appropriate to use it or not. The issue is whether there is any value is
making it faster by including it in python or not. Because of the
increasing popularity of JS I think new users are starting to expect
something like it out of the box.

But this design decision in JavaScript is at the heart of many problems
(e.g. simply looping over keys is a pain).  That it is widely used doesn't
make it desirable. My experience with JavaScript is that we should keep
this 'feature' out of Python. If people want it they can implement it very
easily but encouraging them would be wrong.

-- 
Arnaud
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