On 2/13/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > > OTOH, you can't write > > > > x + = 2 > > > > or > > > > a = 2 * * 4 > > Although oddly enough you *can* write > > a[. . .] > > I guess whoever added the ellipsis couldn't be bothered > defining a new token for it.
But if we ever turn it into a single token (which we just may for Py3k) don't complain if your code breaks. > It's something of an arbitrary choice, but to me it just > seems that the dot and bracket *should* be separare > tokens, perhaps because I would be thinking of the > [x] as a special kind of argument to the dot operator, > rather than there being a funny new operator called ".[". Yes, that's how I was thinking of it. But it's all moot now. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
