I was recently reviewing some Python code for a friend who is a C++
programmer, and he had code something like this:
def foo():
try = 0
while tryMAX:
ret = bar()
if ret: break
++try
I was a bit surprised that this was syntactically valid, and because
the timeout condition
Jared Grubb wrote:
I'm not a EBNF expert, but it seems that we could modify the grammar to
be more restrictive so the above code would not be silently valid. E.g.,
++5 and 1+++5 and 1+-+5 are syntax errors, but still keep 1++5,
1+-5, 1-+5 as valid. (Although, '~' throws in a kink...
Please take this to python-ideas.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Joe Smith unknown_kev_...@hotmail.com wrote:
Jared Grubb wrote:
I'm not a EBNF expert, but it seems that we could modify the grammar to
be more restrictive so the above code would not be silently valid. E.g.,
++5 and 1+++5
