Gareth McCaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problems with syntax are
1 It adds cognitive load.
2 It makes your code look like line noise.
3 It reduces options for future development.
4 It complicates the parser.
I don't know about #4, but I suspect it (along with the related
Karl Chen writes:
Hi, has anybody considered adding something like this:
a = [1, 2]
[ 'x', *a, 'y']
as syntactic sugar for
a = [1, 2]
[ 'x' ] + a + [ 'y' ].
A bit later in the thread, Josiah Carlson replies:
I don't think the parser would get measureably more complex, but
On Monday 19 September 2005 16:36, Michael Chermside wrote:
I'd just like to point out that this is a FRF (Frequently Requested
Feature). I'm not arguing in favor of it, just pointing out that
using star unpacking in tuple and list literals is an idea that
I'm sure I've seen proposed at
[Fred L. Drake]
Indeed, star unpacking has been brought up many times; I think it
would
be
really cool myself.
It might have a chance of acceptance this time if the proponents stick
with unpacking at the end: a,b,*c=sometup instead of a,*b,c=sometup.
The latter has usually gotten shot
Hi, has anybody considered adding something like this:
a = [1, 2]
[ 'x', *a, 'y']
as syntactic sugar for
a = [1, 2]
[ 'x' ] + a + [ 'y' ].
Notes:
- This is a common operation
- To me, the splicing form looks much better than the
concatenation form
- It can be implemented more
Karl Chen wrote:
Hi, has anybody considered adding something like this:
a = [1, 2]
[ 'x', *a, 'y']
as syntactic sugar for
a = [1, 2]
[ 'x' ] + a + [ 'y' ].
Notes:
- This is a common operation
is it?
/F
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Karl Chen wrote:
Hi, has anybody considered adding something like this:
a = [1, 2]
[ 'x', *a, 'y']
as syntactic sugar for
a = [1, 2]
[ 'x' ] + a + [ 'y' ].
You can write that as
a = [1, 2]
a[1:1] = a
Greg
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Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Karl Chen wrote:
Hi, has anybody considered adding something like this:
a = [1, 2]
[ 'x', *a, 'y']
as syntactic sugar for
a = [1, 2]
[ 'x' ] + a + [ 'y' ].
Notes:
- This is a common operation
is it?
Not in the
