On 4/9/21 11:33 AM, anthony.flury via Python-ideas wrote:
On 09/04/2021 19:02, Guido van Rossum wrote:
But if there are two proposals with conflicting semantics for the same syntax that kills both ideas, doesn’t it?
Because apparently it’s not clear what the syntax should mean.
Surely it depends (if we adopt a proposal) how we document it. You could argue that very few syntax elements are
entirely clear unless we explain it - which is what the point of the documentation.
For example for someone who doesn't know what 'with' does, it isn't necessarily clear (just from the syntax) that 'with'
ensures finalizing of resources when an exception occurs - the documentation has to explain that.
Especially if one is coming from, say, Foxpro, where `with` is a shortcut for
omitting the class name for attribute lookups.
--
~Ethan~
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