On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 1:35 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 12:01:55AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > Oh but Steven, Steven, Steven, how can you pass up an opportunity to > > reignite the fires of "pass by value" and "pass by reference"? This is > > CLEARLY the way to represent pass-by-reference where the reference is > > to a mythical value... > > Oh lord, for a second there I read that in the exact tones of Ranting > Rick's posts. > > Time to step away from the computer, I think. >
Haha, that was the kind of thing I was parodying :) On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 1:54 AM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > > Hmmm... I disagree with Chris. > > I'm definitely -1 on a magic dangling 'foo=' after variable names. And > something less than -1 on the even more magic "Lisp symbol that isn't a > symbol" ':foo'. > > Those are just ugly and mysterious. > > However, I don't HATE the "mode switch" use of '*' or '**' in function calls. > I've certainly written plenty of code where I use the same variable name in > the calling scope as I bind in the call. Moreover, function *definitions* > have an an analogous mode switch with an isolated '*'. > It sounds to me like there's a lot of weak support or weak opposition, with some of it spread between the proposal itself and the individual spellings. Rodrigo, it may be time to start thinking about writing a PEP. If the Steering Council approves, I would be willing to be a (non-core-dev) sponsor; alternatively, there may be others who'd be willing to sponsor it. A PEP will gather all the different syntax options and the arguments for/against each, and will mean we're not going round and round on the same discussion points all the times. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/52APLJGPPKQKXGEEROAXDK7DCGGMZQ6G/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
