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Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea

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On Fri, Jul 1, 2016, at 10:13, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The biggest limitation is that I have to abuse the class statement to do
> this. In an ideal world, there would be syntactic support and a keyword:
> 
>     namespace Example:
>         x = 0
>         y = []
>         def test(n): ...
> 
> although others might argue that *not* needing a dedicated keyword is, in
> fact, better.

What might be nice would be a single syntax that isn't specific to
classes or your "namespaces".

namespace(type) Name:
   "equivalent to class Name:"

namespace(whatever) Name:
   "equivalent to class Name(metaclass=whatever)"

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Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-02 00:13 +1000
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-07-01 10:40 -0400
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-07-01 15:49 +0100
    Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-02 03:13 +1000
    Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-02 03:46 +1000
    Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-07-01 19:26 -0700
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-07-01 09:00 -0700
    Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-02 03:10 +1000
      Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-07-01 12:29 -0700
        Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-02 11:07 +1000
          Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Kevin Conway <kevinjacobconway@gmail.com> - 2016-07-02 01:50 +0000
            Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-01 19:55 -0700
            Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-03 13:22 +1000
          Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-07-02 00:59 -0400
          Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Kevin Conway <kevinjacobconway@gmail.com> - 2016-07-02 15:34 +0000
            Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-03 13:44 +1000
              Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-07-02 22:14 -0700
              Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Kevin Conway <kevinjacobconway@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 22:02 +0000
                Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 16:21 -0700
                Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-07-04 01:19 +0100
              Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-07-03 21:01 -0700
          Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-07-02 16:28 -0700
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-04 21:37 +1000
    Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-04 15:09 -0700
      Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-04 15:11 -0700
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea jmp <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2016-07-04 17:58 +0200
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-05 12:58 +1000
    Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-05 13:35 +1000
      Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-05 13:47 +1000
        Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-05 16:09 +1000
          A nestedmodule decorator (Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea) Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-07-05 21:10 +1200
            Improved nestedmodule decorator implementation Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-07-05 21:31 +1200
              Re: Improved nestedmodule decorator implementation Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-05 20:54 +1000
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-05 12:34 +1000
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea jmp <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2016-07-04 13:23 +0200
  Re: Namespaces are one honking great idea carlosjosepita@gmail.com - 2016-07-09 07:05 -0700

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