Ben Finney wrote: > 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).
I agree. And, when done explicitly, it's already easy enough to do this within the language, by just assigning it a value, even if it's an integer from range/xrange or a new sentinel like object(). -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis The stairs of the sky are let down for him that he may ascend thereon to heaven. O gods, put your arms under the king: raise him, lift him -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
