jojoba wrote: > > Fredrik Lundh wrote: >> the fact that despite all attempts to explain how things work, you're >> still haven't realized that if you want the names of things, you should >> pass *namespaces* to your object viewer, not individual objects. > > And what im saying is that isnt it silly that we need pass an entire > namespace, when a much simpler notion would be to have each object know > its own name(s) (even if that name doesnt exist).
No, it's silly to avoid a very well-defined, heavily optimized strategy used everywhere in the language in favor of a new, vague strategy that is usually uninformative and frequently undefined. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
