Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
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But I do stand corrected. I had forgotten that.

On May 30, 2017 3:49 PM, "Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
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>> In early ages of C structures didn't create namespaces, and member names
>> were globals.
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>
> That would certainly explain the origins of it, but I'm
> pretty sure it wasn't the case by the time Python was
> invented. So Guido must have liked it for other reasons.
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