On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 08:43:45AM -0500, Michael Urman wrote:
> If people are dead set on a set literal, why not look further, to
> atrocities like <1,2>, <1>, <>; @{1,2}, @{1}, @{}; {{1,2}}, {{1}},
> {{}}; etc.? I know there has been resistance to grouped <> before (not
> for sets), but I can't remember why.(x < y, z > p) wouldn't be ambiguous, but it'd really freak me out (and probably syntax highlighters) seeing that in the middle of a block of source; I'd hallucinate a set which isn't there. At the moment, you don't have to check the surrounding context to see what < and > mean, which you would have to if they also had a meaning as group delimiters; I seem to remember that this would cause parsing problems for the Python interpreter as well. Andrew _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
