proto-PEPs: __bind__ and __return__?

[Steve Holden]

"James T. Dennis" <jadestar at idiom.com> wrote ...
>
>  I think this is only to open a can of flameworms but I just
>  have to compose the idea and let the forum shred it.
>
>  The = operator in Python bothers me.  We have so little
>  control over it.  We can't overload it.
>
Rubbish. What's __setattr__() for? You perhaps mean "we can onbly overlaod
it for objects we define ourselves", but in that case you need to look more
closely at the type/object unification that's currently taking place.

[ ... ]
>  I hope that makes sense.  (BTW: I hypothesized an "unbound()"
>  function whose intent should be obvious --- I suppose it could
>  be implemented with enough knowlege of the scoping rules by
>  searching globals() and locals() and ???
>
Makes no sense to me, but I am by no means the final arbiter of what's
Pythonic and what's not.

regards
 Steve
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