Anthony Baxter wrote: > I have to say that I'm not that impressed by either the 1-arg or > 2-arg versions. Someone coming across this syntax for the first > time will not have any hints as to what it means - and worse, it > looks like a syntax error to me. -1 from me. >
I'm not sure the "looks like a syntax error" argument holds much weight, because any new syntax is likely to be a syntax error until the syntax is changed. :) "No hints" is a decent argument against it, though. Parenthesis are already used for tuples, function calls, precedence, and generator comprehensions. The more something gets overloaded, the more ambiguous it looks. How about obj.*str_expression instead? "*" is pretty common in the C family of languages as a dereferencing operator. Neil _______________________________________________ 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
