On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Ron Adam <ron3...@gmail.com> wrote: > Having just implementing something similar for nested scopes, it turns out > it can't be operators because if it was, then the names y and z would be > resolved in the wrong scope. > > y = "m" > z = "n" > a = x . y . z > > Which of course wouldn't do what we want. > > a = x . "m" . "n" > > And most likely this would give an error.
If you want to implement the dot as an operator, you could do it by having a special syntactic element called an "atom", which is used for these kinds of identifier-like tokens. The dot operator could then take an object and an atom, and effectively return getattr(obj, stringify(atom)). I'm fairly sure this would result in the same syntax as Python uses. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
