On Oct 27, 2015, at 4:39 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> On 27/10/2015 18:39, Sven R. Kunze wrote: >>> On 26.10.2015 20:54, Ethan Furman wrote: >>> You misunderstand -- the order of string prefixes does *not* matter, >>> so forcing us to use one is silly. >> >> I don't think so. >> >> It's better to have less possibilities in the beginning. So later on, we >> can easily relax the restrictions without breaking compatibility. >> >> Best, >> Sven > > Please no. Having a memory much like a bottomless sieve I have no intention > of reading the manual every time I need to use string prefixes. Would the > table listing "string prefix precedence" in The Fine Docs™ be unique in the > programming world?
Plus, it's too late for this. What would the manual say: "either br or rb is okay, but you if you want fbr you can't spell it frb."? (Assuming we add binary f-strings.) Let's just leave it as any order, and with any capitalization. Eric. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
