On Monday 08 December 2008 22:54:41 Guido van Rossum wrote:
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> 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
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:
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>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Warren DeLano
>> wrote:
>> > As someone somewhat knowledgable of how parsers work, I do not
>> > understand why a method/attribute
On Sat Dec 6 21:29:09 CET 2008, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Warren DeLano
> 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 standalone ke
> 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:
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> (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,
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 = old_o
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
us
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Warren DeLano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> 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
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 ha
> 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]>
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> I'm still in the dark as to what type of data could
> even inspire the
> use of "as" as an object name... A
