[Python-3000] PEP Parade (original) (raw)

Talin talin at acm.org
Wed May 2 04:50:11 CEST 2007

Guido van Rossum wrote:

S 3125 Remove Backslash Continuation Jewett

Sounds reasonable. I think we should still support \ inside string literals though; the PEP isn't clear on this. I hope this falls within the scope of the refactoring tool (sandbox/2to3).

I'm a strong -1 on this one BTW. I really dislike the idea of having to add spurious parentheses or other grouping operators in order to force line continuation. It requires the Python programmer to replace an ugly lexical-level hack into an ugly and cluttered parsing-level hack. Readability suffers as a consequence. In general, parens or grouping operators should only be used when they mean something, not merely as a hint to the parser as to how to parse something.

-- Talin

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