Talin wrote:
> I've never liked using the backslash operator for line continuation
Me neither, but the suggested replacements don't appeal to me either.
Is there any reason we can't just remove them ?
Is backslash continuation still needed anywhere,
or does the grammar now allow for sufficient pa
> On 4/28/06, Greg Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> - introduce '@' as a prefix operator meaning 'freeze'.
Nice idea, but is it possible to be more radical ?
How about having all the existing literal syntaxes produce frozen containers,
using explicit calls to dict(), set(), list(), etc, to cre
On 4/21/06, Talin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum python.org> writes:
>
>> To prevent more abominations like this, let me pronounce that I now
>> like the single-star syntax:
>>
>> def foo(a, b, *, x=1, y=2): ...
>
> Thank you :) It was getting pretty strange there.
>
> The variati
