On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 20:53 +0000, Albert van der Horst wrote: > Because unlike in algol 68 in python whitespace is relevant, > we could get by with requiring whitespace: > x= -q # okay > a<b and -a<c and -b < -d # okay > 8 ** -2 # okay
This is actually quite thoroughly untrue. In python, *indentation* is significant. Whitespace (internal to a line) is not. You can even call methods like this if you want: >>> s = 'abc' >>> s . upper() ABC Obviously, that's A Bad Idea(tm), but python's parser won't stop you. The ++ operator gotcha is so minor that I can't remember anyone actually asking about it on the list (who was actually facing it as a problem--this thread was started by idle speculation). Can we not change the language syntax to address non-issues? Practicality beats purity, a.k.a. don't you have something better to do? Cheers, Cliff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
