On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Dalke wrote: >> When would this "with float ... " considered valid? > > [long posting] > > Oh h... what have I done ... *g* > > Slow down, please. For now there are no concrete plans what-so-ever to > implement the feature in the near future. Some developers have expressed > their interest in a way to alter the resulting type of a literal. It was > my attention to show you, that we have discussed the idea, too. > > Now for the "with type as from import" syntax. I came up with the syntax > idea about an hour ago. I tried to come up with some nice syntax that > reuses existing keywords. IMHO it has a nice ring. Other possibilities I > came up with: > > def float as factory > def float as from module import factory > with float yield factory > with float yield from module import factory > > After some careful thinking I'm in favor of "with ... yield ...". It's > less ambiguous and can't be mistaken for "with open(filename) as fh". > > The ideas needs a good PEP. You are definitely up to something. You also > came up with a list of possible issues and corner cases. Are you > interested in pursuing the proposal? *wink*
Are we able to provide an actual patch to Python that implements this? If so, then I am. Imho the proposal should come with an actual patch, otherwise it's difficult to judge it. Ondrej _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
