Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote at 2006-5-24 18:16 +0200:
>> ...
>> Yup. We could think about this for some future release cycle, though.
>> I'd very much be in favour of making nocall: the default and introduce
>> something like call:. Then sniffing for callableness wouldn't
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote at 2006-5-24 18:16 +0200:
> ...
>Yup. We could think about this for some future release cycle, though.
>I'd very much be in favour of making nocall: the default and introduce
>something like call:. Then sniffing for callableness wouldn't be necessary.
You are aware
Hi Philipp, Florent
[...]
> > There *is* a way to check whether the error resulted from
> the current
> > frame or a lower frame. Introspections like these have the
> tendency to
> > be or become hacks, but then again, we use frame
> inspections in other
> > places, too.
>
> Yes, I was abou
Hi Philipp
[...]
> > Are there really usecases where something can go wrong if
> we use the
> > proposed PEP?
>
> Calling something that may or may not be callable can yield
> at least two different exceptions: TypeError or
> AttributeError (on __call__). That means we'd already have to
> c
On 25 May 2006, at 00:38, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
just to get this straight: I'm not going to discuss in this thread
what
changes we might do to TALES in the future. I'm strictly concerned
about
this release cycle, not a future one. That doesn't I won't be
interested
in discussing
Hi,
just to get this straight: I'm not going to discuss in this thread what
changes we might do to TALES in the future. I'm strictly concerned about
this release cycle, not a future one. That doesn't I won't be interested
in discussing these matters in the future...
> Are there really usecases wh
Hi Philipp, Florent
[...]
> >> In particular, I'm looking for comments on problem #2.
> >
> > Well, following the mantra of "explicit is better than
> implicit" I'd
> > rather have ZPT never call things magically, but I know
> that's not the
> > problem at hand and it poses backward compat p
