On Sat, Jul 08, 2006, Calvin Spealman wrote: > > Just throwing this out there, but I would love to see a complete > dropping of container literals from Python. That is why I proposed the > coercion syntax (ex: list from something) because it would allow > things like list(1, 2, 3) and we can already do dict(ten=10, > eleven=11), so what is the real need for literals as they are? With > some proper compiler optimization we can deduce if list, dict, and > such are in fact bound to the builtins we know, and build literals > from these expressions just the same, but I feel they seem much more > readable, and allow better addition of more literal compilations (set > literals are fixed then, for example). I know no one will like this, > but I have to make the idea known anyway.
Could someone add this to the rejected proposals PEP? -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "I saw `cout' being shifted "Hello world" times to the left and stopped right there." --Steve Gonedes _______________________________________________ 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
