[Python-Dev] Re: The impact of '@' on Leo (original) (raw)

David Eppstein eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Fri Aug 6 00:24:41 CEST 2004

In article <005e01c47b2d$9c0dee80$6700a8c0 at computer>, "Edward K. Ream" <edreamleo at charter.net> wrote:

The major concern I have with '@' syntax as it relates to Leo is the potential for ongoing and never-ending conflicts between Leo's directives and @x constructs in Python.

I don't know what Leo is, but the usual solution to this sort of problem is to introduce some kind of quoting convention, e.g. @@ gets passed through as a single @ to Python, any other @something gets treated as a Leo directive. Is there some reason that wouldn't work?

-- David Eppstein Computer Science Dept., Univ. of California, Irvine http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/

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