On 4/18/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/18/06, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you realize that you are > describing that the expression
> .foo > is syntactic sugar for > > lambda self: self._foo() Somehow I had it in my head that I needed to also call that lambda, though I can't see why now. > That's not what I would call a "symbol type" by any stretch of the > imagination. Roughly, it would do the same as your property-with-strings enhancement, except that .foo would make it obvious that foo was a name (found on .), rather than an arbitrary string. I do see that as symbol-like, because it is a cross between a string (the method isn't resolved immediately) and a name (unquoted, limited to values that are valid for a name). -jJ _______________________________________________ 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
