Re: [Pyparsing] Proposed notational shortcut for setResultsName

[Ralph C. <ra...@in...>]

Hi Paul,

> I don't want this to be part of the constructor.

OK, I see your point.

> Please don't focus on the fact that [] is implemented using
> __getitem__, or that [] implies that we are "getting" anything

I was just trying to point out that overloading should try and stick to
similar meanings.  People used to reading Python have a brain that's
hard wired to think [] is indexing for a read, just like they think + is
for adding, focused on it or not.

What did you think of the realNum._('min') idea?  Only two more
characters and what it does looks like how it reads, i.e. it's calling
an attribute function.

I can read the bracket notation, I just think it would muddy the
Pythoness of PyParsing.

Cheers,


Ralph.