On 25.04.18 05:43, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 08:10:49PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote: > >> Binding expressions are debugger-friendly in that they _don't_ just >> vanish without a trace. It's their purpose to _capture_ the values of >> the expressions they name. Indeed, you may want to add them all over >> the place inside expressions, never intending to use the names, just >> so that you can see otherwise-ephemeral intra-expression results in >> your debugger ;-) > > That's a fantastic point and I'm surprised nobody has thought of it > until now (that I've seen). > > Chris, if you're still reading this and aren't yet heartedly sick and > tired of the PEP *wink* this ought to go in as another motivating point.
Yay, that's like a dream, really fantastic. So sorry that I was way too deep in development in spring and did not read earlier about that PEP. I was actually a bit reluctant about "yet another way to prove Python no longer simple" and now even that Pascal-ish look! :-) But this argument has completely sold me. Marvellous! -- Christian Tismer-Sperling :^) tis...@stackless.com Software Consulting : http://www.stackless.com/ Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 121 : http://pyside.org 14482 Potsdam : GPG key -> 0xE7301150FB7BEE0E phone +49 173 24 18 776 fax +49 (30) 700143-0023
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