Method Chaining

[Pete Forman]

Joonas Liik <liik.joonas at gmail.com> writes:

> On 18 June 2016 at 15:04, Pete Forman <petef4+usenet at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 2:58:19 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 06:13 pm, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > To me, it's a toss-up. The chained version is nice in that it
>>>> > removes the repetition of "g". But the unchained version is more
>>>> > explicit, and avoids the awkward parenthesis.
>>>> >
>>>> > I think I would lean toward the unchained version. Clearly tastes
>>>> > can differ.
>>>>
>>>> Indeed. For what it's worth, I'm ever-so-slightly leaning towards
>>>> Lawrence's taste here.
>>>
>>> More than 'slightly' out here!
>>> One thing about python OOP that irritates me is the 'self.' clutter.
>>> With a Pascal/VB style with-statement its naturally taken care of
>>>
>>> Yeah I know there is this FAQ:
>>> https://docs.python.org/2/faq/design.html#why-doesn-t-python-have-a-with-statement-for-attribute-assignments
>>>
>>> I consider it bogus if we allow with to mean something like:
>>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wc500chb.aspx
>>
>> One subtle difference between your two citations is that VB uses a
>> leading dot. Might that lessening of ambiguity enable a future Python to
>> allow this?
>>
>> class Foo:
>>     def .set(a):  # equivalent to def set(self, a):
>>         .a = a    # equivalent to self.a = a
>>
>> Unless it is in a with statement
>>
>> with obj:
>>     .a = 1                # equivalent to obj.a = 1
>>     .total = .total + 1   # obj.total = obj.total + 1
>>
>> --
>> Pete Forman
>> --
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
> the leading dot does not resolve the ambiguity that arises from:
>
> with ob_a:
>     with ob_b:
>         .attr_c = 42 # which object are we modifying right now?
>
> also refer to "javascript the bad parts" about all the edege cases
> that python would surely face.
> also with is allready used for context managers..

Yes, I ought not to have lumped in the with proposal with that for self.
Python's design FAQ clearly explains why the language does not need that
form of "with".

-- 
Pete Forman