[Python-Dev] PEP-xxx: Unification of for statement and list-comp syntax (original) (raw)

Talin talin at acm.org
Sun May 21 22:11:02 CEST 2006

Steven Bethard wrote:

On 5/21/06, Heiko Wundram <me+python-dev at modelnine.org> wrote:

Am Sonntag 21 Mai 2006 17:38 schrieb Guido van Rossum:

This was proposed and rejected before. I haven't seen this proposed before (at least not in PEP form, or with a working implementation against the current trunk, or just in some form of mail on python-dev), so that's why I posted this. But, if I've really repeated things that were proposed before, feel free to ignore this. While this has been proposed before, I'd like to thank you for putting together a full PEP and a working implementaiton. I think you should still submit the PEP, if for nothing else so that when the issue comes up again, we can point to the PEP and explain that Guido's already rejected it. Steve

I'd like to second Steve's point. I'm impressed by the thoroughness and organization of the PEP.

As a general guideline, I've noticed that proposals which are purely syntactic sugar are unlikely to be accepted unless there is some additional benefit other than just compression of source code.

-- Talin

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