On 6/17/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Talin wrote: > > The motivation, as I understand it, is one of mathematical consistency. > > Noam told me in private email that this is *not* the motivation. > Instead, he wants mutable values. This, in turn, he wants so he > can catch modifications.
That cannot be the only motivation. He can have mutable values today without any new syntax. (Either he can use x[()] or he can use attribute assignment.) But more to the point, this discussion is pointless, since I won't accept the syntax change. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
