[Python-Dev] New syntax for 'dynamic' attribute access (original) (raw)

Marek "Baczek" Baczyński imbaczek at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 00:24:31 CET 2007

2007/2/12, Benji York <benji at benjiyork.com>:

Collin Winter wrote: > There's a connection, but I'd say it's the wrong one. In C, "x->y" > dereferences x, while in Python, "x->y" would dereference y. That's > just begging for trouble.

Then the syntax should obviously be "x<-y".

Someone with OCaml background could confuse that with an assignment

-- Marek Baczyński

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