> > Presumably a reference to a Python symbol would be not just the symbol > > name string, but also an indicator of the namespace of the symbol. > > That would be something very new -- nothing like that was > implied by the original suggestion, and no other language > I know of that has symbols gives them any such powers.
Really? Common Lisp symbols have the form "[<package>:]<name>", where <package> defaults to the local namespace (well, actually the default is a bit more complicated). The original poster was suggesting ":<name>", which I suppose I read in its Lisp interpretation as a symbol in the KEYWORD package. (See the "symbol-package" function in Common Lisp.) Bill _______________________________________________ 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
