En Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:41:47 -0300, Alan Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> However I will observe that > - entire languages are structured on the premise that dynamic > attribute creation can be hazardous That's why we have so many languages to choose from. What is highly important for someone is irrelevant for others. [PL/1 was destined to be The Programming Language...] If you actually dislike the concept of dynamic attribute creation, you're using the wrong language. > - debuggers watch out for dynamic attribute creation, which > tells us it is a common source of bugs Which debugger, please? Might be interesting. (As a debugging tool, not as a design technique). > - I sincerely doubt that anyone who has written more than > a couple scripts in Python has never accidentally created an > attribute dynamically while intending to assign to an existing > attribute. That *might* happen, but not so frequently as to fight against the dynamic nature of Python. > I know the response: write good unit tests. OK, but right now > I am writing code where this restriction will serve as a reasonable > error check, and the design I offered allows very easy removal > of the restriction in the future. Say, once I have written adequate > unit tests. If it suits your needs, fine! But you'll find that most Python programmers won't agree with your approach. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
