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Subject:    Re: [Python-ideas] Method signature syntactic sugar (especially for dunder methods)
From:       Nick Timkovich <prometheus235 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2016-11-08 22:05:48
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Also you can support future changes to the syntax (e.g. __matmul__ and
friends from 3.5, __aiter__ from 3.5.2) with a single codebase rather than
having to push that grammar back to previous versions (impossible?) or have
the grammar for magic methods be extraordinarily general (messy?)

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Another advantage of dunder method names is that you
> can google them. Someone coming across a method called
> "__foo__" can easily find documentation about it, but
> it's not so easy to do that for special syntax.
>
> --
> Greg
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<div dir="ltr">Also you can support future changes to the syntax (e.g. __matmul__ and \
friends from 3.5, __aiter__ from 3.5.2) with a single codebase rather than having to \
push that grammar back to previous versions (impossible?) or have the grammar for \
magic methods be extraordinarily general (messy?)</div><div \
class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Greg \
Ewing <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz" \
target="_blank">greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex">Another advantage of dunder method names is that you<br> can \
google them. Someone coming across a method called<br> &quot;__foo__&quot; can easily \
find documentation about it, but<br> it&#39;s not so easy to do that for special \
syntax.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> <br>
-- <br>
Greg</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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