[Python-3000] PEP-3125 -- remove backslash continuation (original) (raw)

Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Wed May 2 21:50:52 CEST 2007

On 02/05/2007 20.15, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I am worried that (as no indent is required on the next line) it will accidentally introduce legal interpretations for certain common (?) typos, e.g.

x = y+ # Used to be y+1, the 1 got dropped f(x)

It would also change the meaning of existing valid programs such as:

x = 1, y()

The additional ident would solve this of course, but as you already said it's a bad idea from an implementation standpoint.

Giovanni Bajo

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