Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 8/10/06, James Y Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It makes just as much sense as assigning to an array access, and the >> semantics would be pretty similar. > > No. Array references (x[i]) and attribute references (x.a) represent > "locations". Function calls represent values. This is no different > than the distinction between lvalues and rvalues in C. >
Except this syntax is valid in c++ where X() is a constructor call: X(whatever) += 2; is (or can be) valid c++ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
