On Apr 18, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: >>> 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).
Exactly. I tried to explicitly distinguish between symbols in Python (as I suggested them) and symbols in Common Lisp, where they are significantly different. I see you (Bill) are -1 on them anyway, which is fine, but I wasn't suggesting CL-like symbols for Py3K, FWIW. > The original poster was suggesting > ":<name>", which I suppose I read in its Lisp interpretation as a > symbol in the KEYWORD package. Yes, I think that's exactly right. (Ruby symbols are essentially CL keywords, as I understand things, and I was really suggesting Ruby- like symbols for Py3K.) Cheers, Kendall _______________________________________________ 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
