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

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Sat Jun 10 09:35:21 CEST 2006

Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

And from a syntax perspective, it's a bad idea. x[] is much more often a typo than an intentional attempt to index a zero-dimensional array.

but how often is it a typo?

for example, judging from c.l.python traffic, forgetting to add a return statement is a quite common, but I haven't seen anyone arguing that we deprecate the implied "return None" behaviour.

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