On 16 Apr 2005 23:06:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oren Tirosh) wrote: >Take a look at Nick Coglan's "with" proposal: > >http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?selm=mailman.403.1105274631.22381.python-list%40python.org > >It addresses many of the same issues (e.g. easy definition of >properties). It is more general, though: while your proposal only >applies to keyword arguments in a function call this one can be used >to name any part of a complex expression and define it in a suite. > >I think that a good hybrid solution would be to combine the "with" >block with optional use of the ellipsis to mean "all names defined in >the with block". > >See also the thread resulting from Andrey Tatarinov's original >proposal (using the keyword "where"): > >http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?selm=3480qqF46jprlU1%40individual.net > Apologies for lack of attibution, Andrey. And I'm not sure I used your "where" properly just recently. I added it to some other stuff in haste, without actually remembering exactly where it came from, believe it or not, even though I got heavily into it in that thread. Somewhat disturbing memory lapse ;-/ I need some sleep ;-/
Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
