Idea about Idea about method parameters

[Steve Holden]

"Greg Ewing" <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
news:3BB28066.EA1A08A1 at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz...
> Toby Dickenson wrote:
> >
> > class A:
> >     def __init__(self, value1, value2, value3):
> >         self.value1,self.value2,self.value3 = value1,value2,value3
>
> Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! What if you could say
>
>   self.(a, b, c) = a, b, c
>
Then you would have managed to sneak into Python a subset of the "with"
functionality most people seem to feel we can do without! Can't, offhand,
think of any reason why it shouldn't lex, though. When else would a
parenthesis be preceded by a dot? ...

regards
 Steve
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