Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> >> > I wonder if it would be possible to return the state as a pair
>> >> > (unread, flags) where unread is a (byte) string of unprocessed bytes
>> >> > and flags is some other state, with the constraint that in the
>> initial
>> >> > state the flags must be zero. Then I
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 4/13/07, Paul Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 ne
On 4/13/07, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/13/07, Paul Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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
> I'm not proposing to remove the feature, however I'd like to see an
> alternative method for declaring statements that cross a line boundary.
> I seem to recall at one point someone suggesting the use of ellipsis,
> which makes a lot of sense to me:
>
> sorted_result = partition_lower( input
Greg Ewing wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>>all PEPs for Py3k are due by April.
>
>
> Can we nominate one of our 2.x PEPs for promotion
> to a 3000 PEP?
>
> If so, I'd like to nominate PEP 335 - Overloadable
> Boolean Operators.
>
That one would sure improve a lot of trouble we currently
Andrew Koenig wrote:
>> I'm not proposing to remove the feature, however I'd like to see an
>> alternative method for declaring statements that cross a line boundary.
>> I seem to recall at one point someone suggesting the use of ellipsis,
>> which makes a lot of sense to me:
>>
>> sorted_resul
Steven Bethard wrote:
> Just like everywhere else, you can use parentheses:
>
assert True, (
> ... 'ASDF')
Yes, but you have to put the opening paren in
a somewhat awkward place to get it to work.
Seems to me it would be much more intuitive to
use what Haskell calls the "offside rule",
