On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 01:44:07 -0400, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >"Bengt Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Me too. I liked the leading _, but on second thought it is a weird >> language change >> re names in a special context. Probably not so good. > >To repeat: while my '_' proposal could have been for a language change (in >3.0), it was actually for a convention recognized by a metaclass or, more >likely, decorator (and implementable now, I think). *Any* flag would serve >the purpose, but I picked one that was a single char while being visually >striking and, as far as I know, rarely used in current practice even though >quite legal. A 'self_' prefix would do as well except for being more to >type. The prefix could even be an argument to the decorator! > Yes, sorry, I should have read more carefully. Yours is the high ground ;-) Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
