There is a pattern that occurs fairly often in constructors in Python
and other OOP languages.
Let's take an example:
class Server(object):
def __init__(self, host, port, protocol, bufsize, timeout):
self.host = host
self.port = port
self.protocol = protocol
self.bufsize = bufsize
self.maxthreads = maxthreads
self.timeout = timeout
Imho, in the class above the assignment to instance fields does not
contain much programming logic and therefore can be safely 'abstracted
away' by the language itself with a syntax which would look something
like this:
class Server(object):
def __init__(self, @host, @port, @protocol, @bufsize, @timeout):
pass
This would be equivalent to the first example above, yet it does not
obfuscate the code in any way. Or does it? It does look much cleaner
to me.
Of course, the ampersand is just an arbitrary choice and might have
bad connotations for those who read it as 'take address of' but @ has
some allusion to delegates which maybe is ok.
I am not an experienced programmer and I am not sure if this is
necessarily a good idea, so I wanted to get some feedback from more
experienced Pythonistas before submitting it elsewhere.
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