On 17 April 2018 at 14:01, David Mertz <[email protected]> wrote: > Strongly agree with Nick that only simple name targets should be permitted > (at least initially). NONE of the motivating cases use more complex targets, > and allowing them encourages obscurity and code golf.
I also agree. Originally I would have said why not allow them, it's a potentially useful generalisation. But Nick's examples pretty clearly demonstrate that there are a lot of unclear edge cases involved, and even though "prevent people writing ugly code" is explicitly stated as a non-goal in the PEP, that doesn't mean it's OK to allow an obvious bug magnet with no clear use cases. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com