On Apr 20, 2020, at 16:46, Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 3:13 PM Andrew Barnert <abarn...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Sure, it’s a declarative format, it’s just that often it’s intended to be > > understood as representing an object graph. > > I"m not sure the point here -- I was not getting onto detail nor expalingnoi > myself well, but I think there are (kind of) three ways to "name" just one > piece of data that came from a bunch of JSON: > > - a key, as in a dict `data['this']` > - an attribute of an object: `data.this` > - a local variable: `this` > > what I was getting at is that there may be a fine line between the dsta > version and the object version, but that can go between those easily without > typing all the names.
OK, I thought you were saying that line is a serious problem for this proposal, so I was arguing that the same problems actually arise either way, and the same proposal helps both. Since you weren’t saying that and I misinterpreted you, that whole part of the message is irrelevant. So I’ll strip all the irrelevant bits down to this quote from you that I agree with 100%: > It's only when you have it in a local variable that this whole idea starts to > matter. And I think we also agree that it would be better to make this a dict display feature, and a bunch of other bits. But here’s the big issue: > > If I have 38 locals for all 38 selectors in the API—or, worse, a > > dynamically-chosen subset of them—then “get rid of those locals” is almost > > surely the answer, but with just 1? Probably not. And maybe 3 or 4 is > > reasonable too— > > right. but I don't think anyone is suggesting a language change for 1, or > even 3-4 names (maybe 4...) The original post only had 2 arguments. Other people came up with examples like the popen one, which has something insane like 19 arguments, but most of them were either constants or computed values not worth storing; only 4 of them near the end we’re copied from locals. Steven’s example had 5. The “but JavaScript lets me do it” post has 3. I think someone suggested the same setup.py example you came up with later in this same example, and it had 3 or 4. So I think people really are suggesting this for around 4 names. And I agree that’s kind of a marginal benefit. That’s why I think the whole proposal is marginal. It’s almost never going to be a huge win—but it may be a small win in so many places that it adds up to being worth it.
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