[Python-Dev] Set the namespace free! (original) (raw)
Chris Bergstresser chris at subtlety.com
Thu Jul 22 17:49:16 CEST 2010
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:54:58 +0100 Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
That also has the advantage of introducing a measure of much needed compatibility with industry-leading web programming languages. Also, Python would gain much needed flexibility if we allowed indirect name lookup using
$$foo. Current abstractions are too poor compared to best-of-breed OO languages such as PHP or Perl 5.
Let's not forget additional lookup operators, like %foo, to specify the kind of lookup we're interested in (whether we want the result as a dict vs. list vs. whatever). We could even allow overloading (something like object.$) to allow objects to customize the results of their lookup operations. Really, I think with this and a world-class regex implementation we'll be well-positioned when the Internet finally hits it big.
-- Chris
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