"Michael Urman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/9/06, Michael Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The question doesn't make sense: in Python, you assign to a name, > > an attribute or a subscript, and that's it. > > Just to play devil's advocate here, why not to a function call via a > new __setcall__? I'm not saying there's the use case to justify it, > but I don't see anything that makes it a clear abomination or > impossible with python's syntax.
Describe the syntax and semantics. Every time I try to work them out, I end up with a construct that makes less than no sense, to be used in cases I have never seen. Further, if you want to call a method __setcall__ on an object just created, you can use 'x().__setcall__(y)'. There is no reason to muck up Python's syntax. - Josiah _______________________________________________ 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