Re: scope of function parameters

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From	Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi>
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Subject	Re: scope of function parameters
Date	30 May 2011 13:40:19 +0300
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Laurent Claessens writes:
> Le 30/05/2011 11:02, Terry Reedy a écrit :
> > On 5/30/2011 3:38 AM, Laurent wrote:
> >
> >>  Cool. I was thinking that "5" was the name, but
> >>   >>>  5.__add__(6)
> >>  File "<stdin>", line 1
> >>  5.__add__(6)
> >
> >
> > Try 5 .__add__(6)
> 
> What is the rationale behind the fact to add a space between "5" and
> ".__add__" ?
> Why does it work ?

Oh joy.

  >>> [5][0].__add__([6][-1])
  11

The parser just needs the help to detect the intended token boundary
instead of another, unintened one. As the others already say.

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scope of function parameters Henry Olders <henry.olders@mcgill.ca> - 2011-05-29 04:30 -0400
  Re: scope of function parameters Mel <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2011-05-29 07:59 -0400
    Re: scope of function parameters Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-29 16:27 -0400
  Re: scope of function parameters Peter Pearson <ppearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2011-05-29 17:21 +0000
    Re: scope of function parameters Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-30 07:42 +1000
      Re: scope of function parameters Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-05-30 09:12 +0200
        Re: scope of function parameters Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-05-30 00:27 -0700
        Re: scope of function parameters Laurent <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-05-30 09:38 +0200
        Re: scope of function parameters Daniel Kluev <dan.kluev@gmail.com> - 2011-05-30 19:10 +1100
        Re: scope of function parameters Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-30 05:02 -0400
          Re: scope of function parameters Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-05-30 11:08 +0200
            Re: scope of function parameters Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-30 09:14 +0000
            Re: scope of function parameters Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-30 19:17 +1000
            Re: scope of function parameters Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-05-30 11:41 +0200
              Re: scope of function parameters Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-05-30 12:10 +0200
              Re: scope of function parameters Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-05-30 12:10 +0200
            Re: scope of function parameters Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2011-05-30 13:40 +0300
            Re: scope of function parameters Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-30 12:49 -0400
        Re: scope of function parameters Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-30 09:16 +0000
  Re: scope of function parameters Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-29 23:46 +0000
    Re: scope of function parameters Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-30 11:31 +1000
      Re: scope of function parameters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-30 11:56 +1000
        Re: scope of function parameters Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-30 12:08 +1000
          Re: scope of function parameters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-30 12:37 +1000
      Re: scope of function parameters Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-30 04:23 +0000
  Re: scope of function parameters rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-05-31 09:46 -0700
    Re: scope of function parameters rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-05-31 10:33 -0700

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