[Python-ideas] Allowing def to assign to anything

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The paragraph you're replying to was about the naming for "def foo.bar():",
> which Alexander had suggested would work differently from "def
> foo['bar']():" (which he later retracted). So I'm not sure why you're
> proposing a different alternative for "def foo['bar']():" in response to
> these paragraphs.

There've been some weirdnesses in how emails get through, and I'm not
sure which previous emails I'd actually received at the time when I
wrote that. Hopefully it's just a temporary outage that's now cured.
If my post makes no sense in the full context of the thread, feel free
to ignore it.

ChrisA