[Python-Dev] Pre-PEP: Allow Empty Subscript List Without Parentheses (original) (raw)

Nicko van Someren nicko at nicko.org
Fri Jun 9 19:01:03 CEST 2006

On 9 Jun 2006, at 17:44, Guido van Rossum wrote:

This is an elaborate joke, right?

On 6/9/06, Noam Raphael <noamraph at gmail.com> wrote: ... It's simply this: Currently, the expression "x[]" is a syntax error. I suggest that it will be a valid syntax, and equivalent to "x[()]", just as "x[a, b]" is equivalent to "x[(a, b)]" right now. ... Motivation ==========

This suggestion allows you to refer to zero-dimensional arrays elegantly.

I don't think that this suggestion is any less reasonable the the
very existence of zero-dimensional arrays in the first place,
although in my personal opinion that's a fairly low bar.

Nicko

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