Greg Ewing wrote: > Jeremy Hylton wrote: > > Perhaps the solution > > is to require parens around all expressions, a simple > consistent rule. > > I actually designed a language with that feature once. > It was an exercise in minimality, with hardly anything > built-in -- all the arithmetic operators, etc. were > defined in the language. > > A result was that there was no built-in notion of > precedence, and my solution was to require parentheses > around every infix operation. So instead of > > dsq = b * b - 4 * a * c > > you would have had to write > > dsq = ((b * b) - ((4 * a) * c)) > > I never got an implementation working well enough > to find out how much of a disaster this would > have been to use, though. :-)
I already do that anyway, and even update other people's code in any open-source projects I contribute to, because I find it *far* easier to read and write 'unnecessary' parens than remember precedence rules. But I can understand why some people would balk at it, so +0.5 from me. ;) Robert Brewer System Architect Amor Ministries [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
