py3k feature proposal: field auto-assignment in constructors

[Ben Finney]

"André" <andre.roberge at gmail.com> writes:

> Personally, I like the idea you suggest, with the modification that I
> would use "." instead of "@", as in
> 
> class Server(object):
>     def __init__(self, .host, .port, .protocol, .bufsize, .timeout):
>         pass

-1.

That leading dot is too easy to miss when looking over the code.

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Ben Finney