On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 6:13 AM Soni L. <fakedme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Think about it like this, extension methods give you the ability to make > imported functions that look like this: > > foo(bar, baz) > > look like this instead: > > bar.foo(baz) > > That's all there is to them. They're just a lie to change how you > read/write the code. Some languages have an whole operator that has a > similar function, where something like bar->foo(baz) is sugar for > foo(bar, baz). The OP doesn't specify any particular mechanism for > extension methods, so e.g. making the dot operator be implemented by a > local function in the module, which delegates to the current attribute > lookup mechanism by default, would be perfectly acceptable. It's like > deprecating the existing dot operator and introducing a completely > different one that has nothing to do with attribute lookup!
uh... I'm lost. Are you saying that that's a good thing? You *want* to replace the existing dot operator with one that has nothing to do with attribute lookup?? I don't get it. 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/XDY3VAYX3FXJI7ZVT3AYAFA7PGQMBWAA/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
