Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Interesting historic tidbit

[Lele G. <le...@se...>]

>>>>> Just van Rossum wrote:

    Just> I guess the project mentioned in the post below turned out
    Just> differently:

    Just> http://www.cwi.nl/www.python.org/search/hypermail/python-recent=
/0994.html

    Just> It's good to see that Guido's first suggested Python syntax
    Just> for ObjC method calls matches PyObjC's exactly...

Yum, I must try harder to find the time to collect my memories on that
period, as I promised to bbum.

I remember that at that time I asked GvR a somewhat deeper change to
the calling mechanism in Python to allow, with a new flag, a method to
collect its keyword args in a dual-faced object behaving both as list
and as a dictionary, thus permitting a closer look&feel between the
two languages by respecting keywords order, as is in ObjC. I even
produced some sort of patch against Python 1.2, but Guido never
accepted the proposal, and finally dropped official objc support (in
1.3?) :/

Thanx for bringing this to my attention ;-)

bye, lele.
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