jamadagni wrote: >> I like this one for some reason. Just the "using self" would save hella >> typing in a lot of classes. I would favor a convention with leading dots >> to disambiguate from other variables. This wouldn't conflict with, say, >> floats, because variable names can't begin with a number. > > Excellent. Now we don't have to worry about the "first applicable > instance" etc. Any member that begins with a dot will have the context > governer auto-prefixed by the parser. This means that nested using > statements should be like follows: > > using self: > __using .quit:
Under what circumstances would this not mean "using self.quit"? I think one must be refreshingly imaginative to infer that I was proposing that we add "." to variable names in general. The idea would be that it specifies to which names the using statement applies. James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
