Christopher Barker wrote:
That violates an important convention in Python: mutating methods do not return self. We really want to preserve that convention.
Smalltalk has an abbreviated way of writing a series of method calls to the same object: x doThis; doThatWith: y; doTheOther. is equivalent to x doThis. x doThatWith: y. x doTheOther. Something like this could no doubt be added to Python, but I'm not sure it would be worth the bother. Giving a short name to the recipient and then writing the calls out explicitly isn't much harder and is clearer to read, IMO. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
