My perspective: - There's a lot of support for the basic idea, and only a few naysayers, so let's keep looking for a syntax that works.
- There's near-universal dislike for the two-arg form, so let's drop that part of the proposal. - I can't recall that x.[y] has been proposed yet, but thinking about it, that actually makes more sense than x.(y). (In fact, in JavaScript you can write x[y] to the same effect. I wouldn't discount the JS example; JS is probably closer to Python than almost any other language currently in existence except for Boo, and JS has successfully borrowed from Python.) - I'm not too concerned by the '.' being such a small character with this new proposal. x[y] is a lot less common than x(y), so you'll look twice when you think you see x[y] and it doesn't make sense, and then you'll notice it's really x.[y], which you either know or don't, and in the latter case you'll be looking it up or asking around. PS Thanks to Ben for excellent summaries of the discussion so far! -- --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
