PEP 318: Can't we all just get along?
Paul Morrow
pm_mon at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 19 07:52:38 EDT 2004
Anthony Baxter wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 06:35:18 -0400, Paul Morrow <pm_mon at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>Unless of course you want a method to be private/semi-private. How do
>>you feel about the way we can create/manipulate lists and dictionaries
>>using special (magical) syntax? Why is that different (acceptable)?
>
>
> Look, name-mangling is horrid, and I don't think anyone's defending it. But
> at the same time, "name mangling is there" is not an argument for extending
> the horror to a whole new level.
>
> Name mangling only occurs when you create a method with two leading
> underscores, and no trailing ones. Your proposal would hit _every_ _single_
> 'def'. It's nasty, it's unpythonic, and there's approximately _zero_ chance of
> it ever going into the language. Having said that, it's perfectly feasible to do
> it with a metaclass, and if you want to use it in your code, please, feel free.
>
> Anthony
You didn't follow that one with a smiley either... :-)
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