Raymond Hettinger: > One of the reasons for the > rejection was that the small benefit of a literal notion was more than > offset by the attendant need for syntactical atrocities like those > listed above.
{:} for empty dict and {} for empty set don't look too much atrocious to me. Note: the language Fortress, that in graphic modality uses unicode for its sources, has many collection literals (6 or more, you can see 3 of them at page 21): http://research.sun.com/projects/plrg/PLDITutorialSlides9Jun2006.pdf Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list