On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 at 16:42, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote:
> So, uh... what if we didn't need backslashes for statements that begin with a
> keyword and end with a colon? There's no syntactic ambiguity there, right?
> Honestly, adding this would make me less annoyed with the error I get when I
> forget the colon, since it'd actually have a purpose other than grit on the
> screen.
Not sure about ambiguity, but it would require a much more powerful
parser than Python currently has (which only looks ahead one token).
Guido is experimenting with PEG parsers, so maybe it will be a
possibility in the future, but right now the current parser can't
handle it (yes, there are hacks for some special constructs already,
but this would need *arbitrary* lookahead - you could have many lines
between the with and the colon).
Also, I suspect it would really screw up error reporting:
with
open(fname1) as f1,
open(fname2) as f2,
open(fname3) as f3,
open(fname4) as f4,
# Whoops, comma instead of colon
print(hello)
import xxx as bar
if some_var > 10: return
Computer parsers are far dumber than human brains, and if I looked at
that without having written it, *I'd* have trouble working out what
was wrong, so the poor computer has no chance!
Paul
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