Hi All-- Tom Anderson wrote: > > I understand that the backslash is popular in some ivory-tower functional > languages. Currently, a backslash can be used for explicit line joining, > and is illegal elsewhere on a line outside a string literal, so i think > it's available for this. It would be utterly unpythonic to use puntuation > instead of a keyword, and it would make no sense to novices, but it would > scare the crap out of C programmers, which has to be worth something. >
Oh, I don't think so. Don't forget that Perl was written by impatient C programmers. I think scaring C programmers, like giving engineers too much information, is really hard to do. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Metta, <int *(*(*foo)())()>-ly y'rs, Ivan ---------------------------------------------- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.andi-holmes.com/ http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list