Hello, On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 10:30:22 +0100 Federico Salerno <[email protected]> wrote:
> Re: symbol for lookup > > Whatever happened to the proposal of using . as prefix? I guess, the same that happened with the proposals to use "+" as a prefix, or proposals to change sides and use "->" (https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/F22RLCDGKVMIBQKIJZAQYV3YCD45R2IQ/) or ">" to mark variables to be bound. > > If memory serves, the main objection was about it being hard to see, > but is it really? We use fixed width fonts for a reason, and there > are other places a dot is quite critical (has any php programmer ever > mistaken a .= for a = ?) without it's size ever causing issues. > > I think . is visible enough while being aesthetically inoffensive. Am > i missing some problem or important past objection to it? It's logically rather offensive. Dot is "structural sub-element" operator. Given things like: from .foo import bar a.b = 1 something like: sth = "currently, I'm going to match by this value" match foo: case .sth: print("This looks really weird!") looks really weird. -- Best regards, Paul mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4NHQGHBMIOOTHPSC4H22K4UWNUCW34XN/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/