On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 01:08, Jeremiah Paige <ucod...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> While that formatting does look nice, this would be a huge change to the
> parser just to allow a new formatting style. Right now lines are only
> logically joined if they appear between a pair of () [] or {}, or if the line
> ends in a \. Besides the complication of joining lines under new
> circumstances, all the current options have a marker that the parser knows
> about before it encounters the newline. With this new proposal the parser
> will have to walk an arbitrary number of lines ahead to determine if there
> are going to be new indexing operations. That won't really work at all in the
> REPL or any other line-fed interpreter loop.
>
> Currently you can add parentheses to get just about the same visual:
> (foo["bar"]
> ["baz"]
> ["eggs"]
> ["spam"] = 1)
>
Not for assignment, unfortunately. And you can't cheat with := either,
since only simple names are permitted.
I don't often need to do deep assignment like this though. Is it
possible to put something into a variable?
parent = foo["bar"]["baz"]["eggs"]
parent["spam"] = 1
And if it still needs to go over multiple lines, parens can work on that.
ChrisA
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