On Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 9:51:50 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote:
> So if the VB model is followed, it is purely a syntactic (ie not type-related)
> question whether an identifier is an adorned variable or an attribute of
> something else. The preceding dot is the disambiguator.
Uh... UN-ado
On Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 11:56:39 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 03:18 pm, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
> > One thing that is a bit laborious in python are object initializers:
> >
> > self.attr1 = field1
> > self.attr2 = field2
> >
> > In VB one can do:
> >
> > with se
On 28/03/2015 12:58, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 11:26 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 28/03/2015 06:26, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Pascal is another language with a construct like that, and there's a FAQ
for it:
https://docs.python.org/2/faq/design.html#why-doesn-t-python-have-a-w
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 11:26 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 28/03/2015 06:26, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>Pascal is another language with a construct like that, and there's a FAQ
>>for it:
>>
>>
https://docs.python.org/2/faq/design.html#why-doesn-t-python-have-a-with-statement-for-attribute-assignments
On 28/03/2015 06:26, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 03:18 pm, Rustom Mody wrote:
One thing that is a bit laborious in python are object initializers:
self.attr1 = field1
self.attr2 = field2
In VB one can do:
with self
.attr1 = field1
.attr2 = field2
(or something like that -- do
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 03:18 pm, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
>> One thing that is a bit laborious in python are object initializers:
>>
>> self.attr1 = field1
>> self.attr2 = field2
>>
>> In VB one can do:
>>
>> with self
>> .attr1 = field1
>> .attr2
