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>Please explain to us then how exactly you would infer a variable with an arbitrary name is actually a reference to the class instance in an interpreted languag
by coldtea 8mo ago
>Please explain to us then how exactly you would infer a variable with an arbitrary name is actually a reference to the class instance in an interpreted language.
Did I stutter when I wrote about "an unfortunate early decision"? Who said it has to be "an arbitrary name"?
Even so, you could add a bloody marker announcing an arbitrary name (which 99% would be self anyway) as so, as an instruction to the interpreter. If it fails, it fails, like countless other things that can fail during runtime in Python today.
- NetMageSCW 8mo agoBut now you are no longer talking about the way Python works, but the way you want Python to work - and that has nothing to do with Python.
- coldtea 8mo ago"The way our economy works is bad" "That's how it's been since forever, it's an essential part of country X" "Yes, and it's a badly designed part". "But now you are no longer talking about the way country X works, but the way you want country X to work - and that has nothing to do with country X." See how the argument quickly degenerates?
- mathisfun123 8mo agook then be the change you want to see in the world and send a PR instead of just proclaiming things lololol
- coldtea 8mo agoA, the idiotic "it's FOSS, send a PR" argument, lololol