Re: Re: Re: Re[2]: Re: class proposal

Mark Hahn wrote:

> Christian Tismer wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I will make it file.open() and file.open?.
>>
>>Why that? You are also asking if it is closed?,
>>so why don't you ask whether it is opened?
> 
> Technically, "if open" means whether it is open now and "if opened" means
> whether it has ever been open in the past.  So when asking for a current
> state, it should not end in "ed".

Yes. isopen is just fine.

> I agree "isOpen" could be used, but I like open? and the ? tells you
> instantly it is a question (state).  It gives good readability just like the
> ! (shriek). :-)

Shrek! Have you seen it, meanwhile? If so, I'd accept the shriek
as well.

> Modifying things in place deserves a shriek, don't you think?  Not noticing
> that is very bad.

This is all minor syntactic stuff. The main question is, after you
had added lots of salt and taste, shrieks and ?-marks and whatelse,
*do you still eat your own dog-food?"
If so, fine. If not, core melting ALERT.

After reading amost all of what you have, in written and in coding
(very well, of course, real style), I still can't buy into the
language. Someting is missing. Maybe it is called "appeal", I don't
know.
My personal excuse to continue using Python for my recent
projects is that I managed to get Psyco to collaborate with Stackless.
Maybe this is a very good reason. :-)

sincerely (off for a while) - chris
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