[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 318 & Community Consensus (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon Aug 30 17:35:55 CEST 2004


David Goodger wrote:

It may confuse users who don't expect a block to contain bare expressions.

blocks can contain bare expressions today, and such expressions are evaluated, but the results are discarded. plain function calls belong to this category, for example.

On the other hand, the @ syntax is bound to cause at least as much confusion.

and that qualifies as an unbiased observation in exactly in what way?



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