[Python-ideas] Quick idea: defining variables from functions that take the variable name
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue May 31 19:31:52 EDT 2016
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I know that *technically* def is
> an assignment (a name binding) but it doesn't look like one. It looks
> like a definition or declaration.
Well, the use cases we've been considering are effectivly
definitions, they just don't look like it because we don't
have a syntax that generalises the definitioniness of
'def' and 'class'.
> To me, I don't think def is a good match because def doesn't have a left
> and right hand side. Assignment does.
Maybe that means assignment isn't a good model for the
new syntax?
Maybe it should be more like:
def Symbol x
If you want to give it args, you do
def Symbol x(args)
The idea is that this is modelled after
class name(args):
with the keyword 'class' replaced by another keyword
together with the type of thing you're defining.
--
Greg
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