On 16/09/2023 11:33, Dom Grigonis wrote:
It works already with existing tools that will treat "nameof(a+b)" as
a function call, which it is syntactically but not semantically, so
renaming b to c will now produce the string "a+c". I think my IDE
does offer to do this with variable names in strings and comments,
but it produces so many false hits I don't enjoy using the feature.
So the functionality is bound to an editor and anyone using another
editor would just see a weird string?
After several similar editor features things could get very confusing.
No, the opposite. By "works now", I meant to say that if a nameof()
pseudo-function were added to the Python language, existing tools would
not have to change, because they would treat it as a call. This does
scratch an itch (in renaming) by removing the need to guess or ask the
human whether a given string is a variable name.
I'm not convinced this feature is widely useful.
So what is the general procedure for determining it?
1. Compelling use cases here or (better) on the Dicourse counterpart
<https://discuss.python.org/c/ideas/6>.
2. Community and core dev acclamation as a Good Thing.
3. Willigness to implement and maintain.
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Jeff Allen
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