On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Paul Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat Dec 6 21:29:09 CET 2008, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Warren DeLano warren at delsci.com
wrote:
As someone somewhat knowledgable of how parsers work, I do not
understand why a
On Monday 08 December 2008 22:54:41 Guido van Rossum wrote:
From my experience with SQL, it's nearly as bad as Python in that
every single one of the 200+ reserved words in a typical
implementation cannot be used as a name in any context without using
double quotes.
SQL is a big language; I
On Sat Dec 6 21:29:09 CET 2008, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Warren DeLano warren at delsci.com
wrote:
As someone somewhat knowledgable of how parsers work, I do not
understand why a method/attribute name object_name.as(...) must
necessarily conflict with a
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:22:38 -0800
From: Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: as keyword woes
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm still in the dark as to what type of data could
even inspire the
use of as as an object name... A collection of a
Warren DeLano wrote:
There, I assert that 'object.as(class_reference)' is the simplest and
most elegant generalization of this widely-used convention. Indeed, it
is the only obvious concise answer, if you are limited to using methods
for casting.
How about to? Almost every language I have
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Warren DeLano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
There, I assert that 'object.as(class_reference)' is the simplest and
most elegant generalization of this widely-used convention. Indeed, it
is the only obvious concise answer, if you are limited to using methods
On 06 Dec 2008, at 20:38, Warren DeLano wrote:
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:22:38 -0800
From: Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: as keyword woes
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm still in the dark as to what type of data could
even inspire the
use of
Warren DeLano wrote:
In other words we have lost the ability to refer to as as the
generalized OOP-compliant/syntax-independent method name for casting:
Other possible spellings:
# Use the normal Python idiom for avoiding keyword clashes
# and append a trailing underscore
new_object =
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 12:13:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Carl Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: as keyword woes
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID:
(snip)
If you write a PEP, I advise you to try to sound less whiny and than
you have in this thread.
(snip)
Ehem, well, such comments
