Proposal for new operators to python that add syntactic sugar for hierarcical data.

Heiko Wundram me+python at modelnine.org
Thu May 18 17:18:19 EDT 2006


Am Freitag 19 Mai 2006 02:08 schrieb Bruno Desthuilliers:
> We'd need the make: statement, but the BDFL has pronounced against.
>
> I'm still -2 against your proposition, but it could make a good use case
> for the make statement. I gave an eye at the new 'with' statement, but
> I'm not sure it could be used to solve this.

Couldn't. "with" is a blatant misnomer for that it's functionality is 
(basically a "protected" generator), at least if you know what with does in 
VB (god, am I really comparing VB with Python? And I've never even programmed 
in the former...)

--- Heiko.



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