Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Mar 18 22:50:05 CET 2013

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Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> I am not the best person to answer because I go on to argue that this 
> syntax is not needed in Python at all (anything it can do can be 
> implemented with __setitem__ at no loss of clarity).

I would even argue that the proxy solution is even *better*
for that particular use case, because it makes both operations
look like forms of indexing, which they are.

-- 
Greg

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