Kendall Clark wrote: > Thanks, Martin. That is, in fact, pretty much what I'd like to see in > Py3K, modulo the issue about getattr.
The question is still: why? In Smalltalk, symbols are used to denote names (methods/selector names and class names); this apparently isn't your intention (and I do believe strings serve fine as names, no need for a new datatype - except that it should support Unicode). So the only advantage I can see is the simplified typing: instead of typing two quotation marks, you type a single colon. It might be a saving on your keyboard that you don't have to press the shift key (is colon available unshifted on US keyboards?); I have to press the shift key either way (: is shift-.; " is shift-2). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
