Pre-PEP ideas

[John Roth]

"Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" <me at privacy.net> wrote in message
news:3E515FC9.8010604 at privacy.net...
> Richard Jones wrote:
>  >
>
> > On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 1:06 pm, Steven Cummings wrote:
>
> >
> > > def A.print(self):
> > >    "print a string representation to sys.stdout"
> > >    print self._value
>
>  >
>
> > I'd vote -1 for this simply because there's already a way to do
this.
>
>
> The existing way is fine assuming assuming you only want
> to do this rarely. But I can think of a reason for wanting
> to do this a lot.
>
> When I have more than one class in a source file, and I'm
> looking at a method definition, it can be hard to tell which
> class it belongs to. In order to get a sense of where abouts
> I am, I have to scroll up until I find the class statement,
> and then scroll back down again to where I was. This is
> terribly disruptive to one's flow of thought.

I think this is an IDE problem. I'm currently learning Eclipse
for Java, and I think I'm going to like the outline view a lot.
That gives me a thumbnail view of the module by the side
of the edit window.

John Roth

> If I could declare all my methods using the above style,
> this problem would go away.
>
> --
> Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
> University of Canterbury,
> Christchurch, New Zealand
> http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg
>