On Thu, Oct 22, 2020, at 21:00, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> "Who"? Syntax is a person now?
>
> For what it's worth, I don't think escaping special symbols is ugly.
> More like homely. It does the job, plainly and simply, but I don't think
> it's especially good looking. Every other character stands for itself,
> with this handful of exceptional cases.
I suspect that calling this particular syntax ugly is picking at a bit of an
open wound in the history f-string implementation... consider precisely why the
escaping syntax is {{}} instead of \{\}, and all the implications of that.
(with the PEG parser, incidentally, I wonder if it may be time to revisit
certain limitations in f-string syntax, though that particular one technically
presents a backward compatibility problem that the rest don't)
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