Language question
Gordon McMillan
gmcm at hypernet.com
Tue Oct 19 22:23:33 EDT 1999
[Tim Peters]
> [Brian Kelley]
> > class foo:
> > """insert foo here"""
> >
> > def bar(foo):
> > """this should really be class bar(foo): Insert bar
> > here"""
> [Gordon McMillan]
> > What's to disallow? ...
>
> After several readings, I believe Brian objects to Python
> allowing him to reuse the name of a class as a formal argument
> name, in a context where "class" in place of "def" would have
> been legal. That is, he would like Python to ignore what he
> typed and infer his intent <wink>.
Oh! And I just did that this morning! But I blamed it on not-
enough-coffee.
tOo-mUcH-bzz-iS-sTiLl-nOt-bzz-eNoUgH-lY-y'Rs
-gOrdOn
- Gordon
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