What you want was popular in Cobol. That language has generally lost favor for current development, but lots of it is still around.
Still, I don't want Python to try to be Cobol. I think the intellectual argument for "English syntax" failed, notwithstanding installed base. On Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 3:49 PM Mathew Elman <mathew.el...@ocado.com> wrote: > The point is that at the moment to set this sort of api up requires a lot > of work, defeating 50% of the value i.e. to define a new function with the > attribute access behaviour requires defining each individual function to > return a middle step object that has the attribute of the next function, so > you can't define a function in plain english. > e.g. > > def insert_into(x, y): > ... > > def insert(x): > class Return: > def into(self, y): > return insert_into(x, y) > return Return() > > insert.into = insert_into > > is a very long way to say: > > def insert(x)._into(y): > ... > > and that is without the actual logic and for only 2 positional args. > > > > But why would you? It's ugly if spelled like that, and your whole > argument is that the "interspersed arguments" form is better. If you just > want to pass the function to something that expects "normal" argument > conventions, lambda x,y: insert(x).into(y) does what you want. > > The point is so that in code that expects dynamically called functions or > to be able to reference the function by name it needs to have a single name > that follows backward compatible naming conventions. I would be happy with > it being on the onus of the developer in question to add a wrapping > function, less happy than if it was added by default but it would still be > a saving (and could maybe be in a decorator or something). > > > > I've never heard anyone else suggest anything like this, so you might > want to consider that the annoyance you feel is not a common reaction... > > I know lots of people that have had this reaction but just shrugged it off > as "the way things are", which would seem like a good way to stagnate a > language, so I thought I would ask. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/JY3JEMACQQ33F6NTZJZ7T6U4YPEZFQTJ/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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