[Python-Dev] PEP 343 update (with statement context terminology) (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Apr 24 21:39:21 CEST 2006


At 12:24 PM 4/24/2006 -0700, Aahz wrote:

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 04:48 AM 4/25/2006 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >>Using two names to describe three different things isn't intuitive for >>anybody. > > Um, what three things? I only count two: > > 1. Objects with context > 2. Objects with enter and exit > > What's the third thing?

The actual context that's used during the execution of BLOCK. It does not exist as a concrete object,

Um, huh? It's a thing but it's not an object? I'm lost now. I don't see why we should introduce a concept that has no concrete existence into something that's hard enough to explain when you stick to the objects that actually exist. :)



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