While everyone is saying what they want in Python :)

[Erik Max Francis]

Jay O'Connor wrote:
> 
> Smalltalk-style cascade operations would be *very* cool
> 
> win = GtkWindow();
>         set_title("Hello World");
>         set_name ("window");
>         set_usize (400,200)
> 
> versus
> 
> win = GtkWindow()
> win.set_title("Hello World")
> win.set_name ("window")
> win.set_usize (400,200)

This general type of functionality (compare to the `with' keyword in
Pascal/Delphi) is generally a lot more trouble than it works.  It saves
a bit of typing, but sacrifices it for the sake of obscurity and
occasionally ambiguity when there are name collisions.

The amount of typing required should never be the primary concern in
desiging a language; clarity of what you're typing is much more
important than how many keys you physically have to hit.

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