Move. This. Thread. Out. Of. Python-Dev. Now. (python-ideas is the right place.)
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18.03.13 17:40, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> On 19/03/13 02:01, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: >>> >>> Assigning to function calls is orthogonal to reference types. For >>> example, Python manages assignment to subscripts without having >>> references just fine: >>> >>> val = obj[index] # val = obj.__getitem__(index) >>> obj[index] = val # obj.__setitem__(index, val) >>> >>> In analogy with that, Python could implement what looks like >>> assignment to function call like this: >>> >>> val = f(arg) # val = f.__call__(arg) >>> f(arg) = val # f.__setcall__(arg, val) >> >> >> That's all very well, but what would it do? It's not enough to say that >> the syntax could exist, we also need to have semantics. What's the >> use-case here? (That question is mostly aimed at the original poster.) > > > Python could use parenthesis instead of brackets for indexing and a > dictionary lookup. However it is too late to discuss this idea. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/guido%40python.org -- --Guido van Rossum (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
