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[Rainer Deyke]

"Grant Edwards" <grante at visi.com> wrote in message
news:txFL5.5284$FU3.1232143 at ptah.visi.com...
> In article <mVEL5.145182$g6.66741488 at news2.rdc2.tx.home.com>, Rainer Deyke
wrote:
>
> >On a related note, I want the following to work:
> >
> >l = [0]
> >def l[0]():
> >  pass
>
> Well, it doesn't.
>
> Perhaps you can explain a little further _why_ you want that to
> work and perhaps we can suggest an alternative means to that end.

Two reasons, neither of them terribly important:

1. Consistency.  A def statement is an assignment, and should therefore be
consistent with other assignments in its possible targets.

2. The ability to create dispatch tables with minimal noise.  I could just
use "def f():pass\nl[0] = f\ndel f\n", but that takes two extra lines.  It's
a hypothetical problem anyway, since I'm not currently using any dispatch
tables.


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