On 4/21/06, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure I follow the priority argument (except in a purely > parser-technical sense, I guess).
I meant that everywhere else in Python, ';' inside parentheses is illegal; ';' terminates a statement (and an error-correcting parser could use a ';' inside parentheses as a clue that a close paren is probably missing). I like this property because it aids readability by humans. There are a few operators that don't always have the same relative priorities (e.g. ',' and 'in' -- in a for-statement, ',' binds more tightly, but in an expression, 'in' binds more tightly) and those are somewhat bothersome to me. The parser has no problems because it knows in which context it is parsing; but it can make skimming code by humans harder. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
