On Jun 3, 8:56 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > Allowing a trailing ! in method names has no such cost, because in no > language I know is ! used as a "postfix unary operator"; the gain in the > convention "mutators end with !" is not huge, but substantial. So, the > tradeoffs are different: small pain, substantial gain == not a bad idea. > > However, this is all quite theoretical, because no more PEPs will be > accepted for Python 3000, so any language change like this would have to > wait for Python 4000, which is no doubt quite a distant prospect:-).
Would it? If it isn't backwards-incompatible, it could even go in 2.6 -Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
