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| Date | 2013-12-04 11:29 +0100 |
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| From | Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> |
| Subject | Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? |
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Op 04-12-13 11:09, rusi schreef: > On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 2:27:28 PM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:31 PM, rusi wrote: >>> Its a more fundamental problem than that: >>> It emerges from the OP's second post) that he wants '-' in the attributes. >>> Is that all? >>> >>> Where does this syntax-enlargement stop? Spaces? Newlines? >> >> At non-strings. >> >>>>> setattr(foo, 21+21, 42) >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> TypeError: attribute name must be string, not 'int' > > Not sure what's your point. > > OP wants attribute identifiers like outer_fieldset-inner_fieldset-third_field. > Say I have a python expression: > obj.outer_fieldset-inner_fieldset-third_field > > It can (in the proposed extension) be parsed as above, or as: > obj.outer_fieldset - inner_fieldset-third_field > the first hyphen being minus and the second being part of the identifier. > > How do we decide which '-' are valid identifier components -- hyphens > and which minus-signs? > > So to state my point differently: > The grammar of python is well-defined > It has a 'sub-grammar' of strings that is completely* free-for-all ie just > about anything can be put into a string literal. > The border between the orderly and the wild world are the quote-marks. > Remove that border and you get complete grammatical chaos. > [Maybe I should have qualified my reference to 'spaces'. > Algol-68 allowed spaces in identifiers (for readability!!) > The result was chaos] > > I used the spaces case to indicate the limit of chaos. Other characters (that > already have uses) are just as problematic. I don't agree with the latter. As it is now python can make the distinction between from A import B and fromAimportB. I see no a priori reason why this should be limited to letters. A language designer might choose to allow a bigger set of characters in identifiers like '-', '+' and others. In that case a-b would be an identifier and a - b would be the operation. Just as in python fromAimportB is an identifier and from A import B is an import statement. -- Antoon Pardon
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Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2013.dobrogost.net> - 2013-12-03 09:14 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-12-03 12:38 -0500
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Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-12-03 09:31 -0800
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Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-04 02:09 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-12-04 11:29 +0100
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-04 04:01 -0800
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Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-04 05:02 -0800
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Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-12-04 07:56 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-12-04 19:43 -0700
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Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-12-04 01:12 -0800
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Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2013.dobrogost.net> - 2013-12-04 13:00 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2013.dobrogost.net> - 2013-12-04 12:07 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-12-04 12:22 -0800
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