On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 04:02:54 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> class C: > def $method(arg): > $value = arg > > (Note there's no point after $, it's not currently possible). > Ruby uses @ and @@ for similar purposes. > I agree that the code looks worse, but also shorter to read and write, > so in lines of code that use many instance attributes, that short $ > syntax helps keep the line shorter. So I may grow to accept this > sugar... > But that is not the way Python is meant to work. There are several tennets in the Zen of Python that don't chime well with this approach. "self" is a speaking identifier, "$" isn't. we've-been-through-this-ingly yours /W -- My real email address is constructed by swapping the domain with the recipient (local part). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list