> On 21 Jan 2020, at 22:50, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas
> <python-ideas@python.org> wrote:
>
> But it seems like nameof(self.age) always has to be just “age”, which you
> already have to type inside the nameof if you want it to be findable, so
> it’ll never be useful. Anywhere you could write `{nameof(self.age)}` you
> could just more simply write `age`.
That misses the point. Refactoring tools for example won't know how to handle
the rename of the variable foo in this example:
foo = 1
n = 'foo'
print(n, foo)
If you had
n = nameof(foo)
It would know what to do. That's why this feature exists in C# and AFAIK also
in Swift for example.
/ Anders
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