On 7/8/06, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
Done. Has Calvin explained *why* he wants this yet? (Not that that will make me change my mind. I'm just curious. :-) -- --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
