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From: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 21:16:39 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] gh-71141: Add note on rejecting "leading-dot" syntax for with
 statements (#96928)
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Co-authored-by: Daniël van Noord <13665637+DanielNoord@users.noreply.github.com>
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 Doc/faq/design.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst
index 9da1d01abd6f51..52388fca5cdbca 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/design.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst
@@ -703,6 +703,10 @@ This also has the side-effect of increasing execution speed because name
 bindings are resolved at run-time in Python, and the second version only needs
 to perform the resolution once.
 
+Similar proposals that would introduce syntax to further reduce code volume,
+such as using a 'leading dot', have been rejected in favour of explicitness (see
+https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2016-May/040070.html).
+
 
 Why don't generators support the with statement?
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