Joao S. O. Bueno jsbueno at python.org.br
Wed Feb 1 12:33:46 CET 2012

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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Simon Sapin <simon.sapin at kozea.fr> wrote:
> Le 01/02/2012 02:06, MRAB a écrit :
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>>> >  I'm not a fan of any of the .[], .(), .{} patterns, nor of .! .
>>> >
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>> .() looks the most sensible to me.
>>
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> If .[] looks like indexing, .() looks like calling. (I’m not for or against
> either of these, just pointing out that they have the same problem.)

Still, there should be something with a closing token.
Try to imagine three of these in a chain, if the syntax is a colon:

name1:name2:name3:name4 -> which could mean either of:

name1:(name2:(name3:name4)), (name1:name2):(name3.name4)
and so on  - (not to mention other expressions involving names, though these
would be less ambiguous due to to operator precedence.

  js
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