From: Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
Date: 2005-05-19T21:43:04+09:00
Subject: Re: syntax sugar: treating an object like a method


--- gabriele renzi <surrender_it@remove-yahoo.it> wrote:
> Eric Mahurin ha scritto:
> 
> > 
> > I didn't know Python had that.  Just found it:
> > 
> >  x(arg1, arg2, ...) is a shorthand for x.__call__(arg1,
> arg2,
> > ..)
> 
> but notice that python does not have (and never had) separate
> namespaces 
> for methods and variables, like we have in ruby.
> Special casing #call (which is something I like) will cause
> some 
> breakage in cases where you do things like
>   meth = meth(meth)
> or similar, see a recent message from Joao Pedrosa (IIRC)
> that shows 
> some examples of real libraries getting an error.

I think it is a similar issue between method calls and getting
a local variable - same namespace.

I would think a method call would take precedence over an
"object" call - like getting a local variable takes precendence
of calling a method.



		
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