On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Norberto Lopes<shelika.v...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
> Assuming that python dictionaries already provide a bit of "shoot
> yourself in the foot", I think what I have in mind would not be so
> bad.
>
> What do you think of dictionaries having a self lookup in their
> declaration?
>
> Be able to do this:
>
> a = {"foo" : "foo1", "bar" : a["foo"]} # or with another syntax
>
> instead of:
>
> a = { "foo" : "foo1" }
> a["bar"] = a["foo"]
>
> Maybe I'm murdering python syntax/philosophy right here so let me know
> if that's the case.The idea sounds quite confusing and seems unnecessary. Specifically, your proposal appears to contravene the following points of the holy Zen of Python: - Explicit is better than implicit. - Readability counts. - Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. - In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess. - If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
