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[John Roth]

"Dave Benjamin" <ramen at lackingtalent.com> wrote in message
news:slrnbqcu85.u0o.ramen at lackingtalent.com...
> In article <vqcn9ooasi2f19 at corp.supernews.com>, Emile van Sebille wrote:
> > QOTW:  "...I want to reserve .var for the "with" statement (a la VB)."
> >   --Guido van Rossum
>
> I saw this, too! Is this a joke? It seems to contradict the FAQ entry:
>
http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#why-doesn-t-python-have-a-with-statement-like-some-other-languages
>
> It does seem like the .dot .prefix would disambiguate the variable scope
as
> long as it is used consistently, but I must say it was a surprise to read
> this...

Aparently Guido has a number of directions he'd like to take Python,
and some kind of *optional* typing is on the list. That's no secret,
I've seen references to it a number of times.

Every few months, someone brings up a 'with' statement. The FAQ
points out a number of problems with it, however, if you're willing
to give up some dynamism and insert the needed type declarations,
then it's not only eminently doable, but (if done right) would help
demonstrate program correctness.

John Roth



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