On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:54:58 +0100 > Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote: >> >> That also has the advantage of introducing a measure of much needed >> compatibility with industry-leading web programming languages. > > Also, Python would gain much needed flexibility if we allowed indirect > name lookup using `$$foo`. Current abstractions are too poor compared > to best-of-breed OO languages such as PHP or Perl 5.
Let's not forget additional lookup operators, like %foo, to specify the kind of lookup we're interested in (whether we want the result as a dict vs. list vs. whatever). We could even allow overloading (something like object.__$__) to allow objects to customize the results of their lookup operations. Really, I think with this and a world-class regex implementation we'll be well-positioned when the Internet finally hits it big. -- Chris _______________________________________________ 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
