Why does it need to be called at all?
{1, 2, 3}.frozen
Or even:
{1, 2, 3}.f
On Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 6:28 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 07:20:12AM +0000, Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote:
> > My preferred syntax for a frozenset literal would be something like
> >
> > {1, 2, 3}.freeze()
> >
> > This requires no new syntax, and can be safely optimized at compile time
> > (as far as I can tell).
>
> I like that, it is similar to a proposal for docstrings:
>
> https://bugs.python.org/issue36906
>
> This would be safe to optimize at compile time, so long as the contents
> of the set were all literals. And for implementations that didn't
> optimize at compile time, it would be no worse than the situation now.
>
> Perhaps a better name would be "frozen()` since that doesn't imply
> an in-place operation like "freeze" does.
>
>
>
> --
> Steve
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