On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:28:51 -0800, James Stroud wrote: > On Wednesday 16 March 2005 04:45 pm, Robert Kern wrote: >> > This would be very unambiguous. >> >> Not entirely. >> >> > Then, the purity would manifest itself the naked comma being an empty >> > tuple. Think about the zen of: >> > >> > Â Â, >> >> Is that a tuple or grit on my monitor? Â:-) > > OK, OK, I'll give up on the commas. Maybe we should just use dollar signs :?
No, using symbols like that is bad. Clearly we need a new parser constant, THE_ZERO_LENGTH_EMPTY_TUPLE. We will, of course, have to forbid assigning any other name to that constant (more language changes) so that people don't start creating their own inconsistent name... *especially* shorter ones. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
