On Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 11:56:39 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 03:18 pm, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > One thing that is a bit laborious in python are object initializers: > > > > self.attr1 = field1 > > self.attr2 = field2 > > > > In VB one can do: > > > > with self > > .attr1 = field1 > > .attr2 = field2 > > > > (or something like that -- dont exactly remember the syntax) > > > Pascal is another language with a construct like that, and there's a FAQ for > it: > > https://docs.python.org/2/faq/design.html#why-doesn-t-python-have-a-with-statement-for-attribute-assignments
This is not my baby so I am not going to pursue this argument beyond here. However that FAQ addresses Object Pascal, Delphi, C++ and their respective static type disciplines. The VB syntax OTOH does not exploit any typing info https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wc500chb.aspx because attributes are prefixed with a dot -- unlike Pascal and unlike the examples in the FAQ. So if the VB model is followed, it is purely a syntactic (ie not type-related) question whether an identifier is an adorned variable or an attribute of something else. The preceding dot is the disambiguator. Anyways... As I said, this feature is not v important to me one way or other... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list