I haven’t given much thought regarding the syntax. The prefix “=“ just popped into my mind and I went along with it to use in my examples. The point was that f-strings are potentially a good place to implement such thing.
By “elegant", I wasn’t talking about the syntax. It was more about the benefits of it being well integrated python construct, which is subject to a parser and is a python code by all standards and it fitting in that place sensibly given what it is. Regards, DG > On 24 Sep 2023, at 05:15, Stephen J. Turnbull > <turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > > Dom Grigonis writes: > >>>>>> Eric Smith wrote: >>> Since I wrote that commit: no one is saying it’s impossible or >>> overly difficult, > >> To be honest it is exactly what was being said. > > Sure ... about an unclearly expressed early version of the proposal, > that seemed to ask "given an object x, tell me the name of x". In the > end, I don't think there was any disagreement that doing that reliably > is indeed impossible. But if someone has written that the #nameof > version of the proposal is impossible to implement, that is not > representative of what most of us think or have said. > >> What I think is that it would be an elegant feature if it was >> implemented at python level. > > The postfix '=' flag is elegant by anyone's standard, I think: it > provides immediately useful, though limited, functionality, with no > waste, and is automatically fit for purpose because it satisfies DRY. > And it is mnemonic in the sense that you may have to look it up to > write it, but once you've learned it, you will recognize it when you > see it in unfamiliar code because it "looks like" what it produces. > > The proposed prefix '=' flag is much less attractive to me on all > counts above, except that it's quite mnemonic. > > Steve _______________________________________________ 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/IQKEAWZQYHZECH74BTXBO2T4VF44ZKAB/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
