On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 6:15 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 01:32:35AM +0100, Mikhail V wrote: >
> > Using spaces to separate items has the fatal flaw that it cannot > distinguish > > x - y 0 # two items, the expression `x - y` and the integer 0 > > from: > > x - y 0 # three items, `x`, `-y`, and 0 > > Ah, sorry, my bad. Now I remember preciser what was my formatting idea originally. That would make things clearer indeed - the separator would be TAB character only. (I wrote tabs or spaces in proposal). The root of the idea was finding a cleaner way for defining tables and data plus some experiments with nesting syntax, etc. Back then I did not think much about supportin expressions inside elements, so this important issue slipped through. So with the TAB separator, just think of replacement TAB->comma, this should support all Python expressions automatically. At least seems to me so, but if I am delusional - please correct me. Of course the reality is still, that sadly, most editors cannot handle tabulaton adequately. But I am a believer and hope for better future. (Heck, people building space ships and what not, so maybe tabulation in code editors comes next?) _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
