Le 27/09/2018 à 12:48, Ken Hilton a écrit :
Hi Jasper,
This seems like a great idea! It looks so much cleaner, too.
Would there be a dunder method handling this? Or since it's explicitly
just a syntax for "obj = obj.method()" is that not necessary?
My only qualm is that this might get PHP users confused; that's really
not an issue, though, since Python is not PHP.
Anyway, I fully support this idea.
What would the following evaluate to?
a .= b + c(d)
1: a = a.b + a.c(a.d) # everything is prepended an "a."
it means we dn't have access to any external elements, making the
functionality only useful in a few cases
2: a = a.b + a.c(d) # every first level element (if that means
something) is prepended an "a."
We still lose some of the ability to access anything outside of `a`, but
a bit less than in #1. The effort to understand the line as grown a bit,
though.
3: a = a.(b + c(d)) # everything is evaluated, and an "a." is prepended
to that result
(the same way `a *= 2 + 3` is equivalent to `a *= 5`)
I believe in most cases, this wouldn't mean anything to evaluate `b +
c(d)` on their own, and expect a return that can be used as an attribute
of `a`.
4: a = a.b + c(d) # "a." is prepended to the first element after the `=`
It is probably quite easy to read and understand, but it removes the
transitivity of the operators we have on the right, and is a bit limiting.
5: SyntaxError: Can only use the [whatever the name] augmented operator
with a single expression
Why not, it's a bit limiting, but is clear enough to me.
Maybe, a simpler thing to do for this problem would be to make something
like this:
a = .b(5) + c(.d) + 3
being the equivalent of
a = a.b(5) + c(a.d) + 3
I don't see any ambiguity anymore, it shortens the code a lot, and I
guess it wouldn't be hard for the compiler to recompose the line as a
first parsing step, and create the same AST with both syntaxes.
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