>> Ruby has an interesting approach to this - the names of mutating methods >> end with !. So it would be list.sort!() which gives a strong cue to what > > What a great idea! Hmm.. maybe Python could do this, too; and use some > other characters like $, @ and % to indicate if a name is a reference to a > plain old variable, a list, or a dictionary!
:-) But don't even joke about it. Decorators are bad enough, no more line noise in Python. If we want weird characters in our code we can just learn Perl! I assume this was intended irony Terry?.... Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
