Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:48:46 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > I believe Pierre is looking for a syntax that will save him from > > assigning values to names; that Python will simply assign > > arbitrary unique values for these special names. > > > What I still don't understand is why this justifies additional > > syntax baggage in the language, rather than an explicit assignment > > earlier in the code. > > The only advantage would be if you want to do something like this: > > MO, TU, WE, TH, FR, SA, SU = Symbols()
I believe that's exactly what Pierre doesn't want to do. He wants to simply use names (marked special in some way) and have Python automatically determine a unique value for each name, with nary an assignment in sight. To me, that's a net loss. It makes names more complicated, it loses "explicit is better than implicit", and it loses the checks Python could do against using a name that hasn't been assigned a value (caused by e.g. a misspelled name). -- \ "Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done | `\ for me?" -- Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
