On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:56 PM Richard Damon wrote:
> As someone who does hardware design with HDLs, I would say that to think
> that it would be easy to recreate the abilities of them in a
> 'conventional' programming language doesn't really understand at least
> one of the languages, as there
On 5/30/19 4:09 AM, Yanghao Hua wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:50 AM Greg Ewing
> wrote:
>> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> Yanghao Hua wants to customise the behaviour of assignment. I believe
>>> that he wants to emulate the behaviour of some hardware description
>>> languages, where the equals
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 7:07 AM Stephen J. Turnbull
wrote:
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> Steven D'Aprano writes:
>
> > You might be right, but then the first post in this thread talked
> > about it:
> >
> > I realize there is no way to overload the behavior of the
> > assignment operator in python
> >
> >
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 1:02 AM Greg Ewing wrote:
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> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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> > The obvious solution to customising assignment is to use a dotted
> > target:
> >
> > obj.x = value
>
> Another problem with this is that we don't want to customise *all*
> assignments. Sometimes we just want a
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:50 AM Greg Ewing wrote:
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> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > Yanghao Hua wants to customise the behaviour of assignment. I believe
> > that he wants to emulate the behaviour of some hardware description
> > languages, where the equals sign = doesn't mean assignment (if I have
> On 30 May 2019, at 01:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 10:22:31PM +0100, Barry wrote:
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>> Serhiy, I think, is conflating two things.
>> 1. How to write software robust aginst attack.
>> 2. How to replace a symlink atomically.
>
> I don't have an opinion on whether Se
