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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Feb 14 02:12:09 CET 2007

This seems to be the overwhelming feedback at this point, so I'm withdrawing my support for the proposal. I hope that Ben can write up a PEP and mark it rejected, to summarize the discussion; it's been a useful lesson. Occasinoally, negative results are worth publishing!

On 2/13/07, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Feb 13, 2007, at 7:24 PM, Greg Ewing wrote: > I'm still -1 on the basic idea, though, on the grounds of > YAGNIOE (You Aren't Going to Need It Often Enough).

I can't really add much more than what's already be stated, but I echo Greg's sentiment.

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