[Python-Dev] PEP 8 updated on whether to break before or after a binary update (original) (raw)

Random832 random832 at fastmail.com
Sat Apr 16 00:09:23 EDT 2016

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016, at 23:46, Peter Ludemann via Python-Dev wrote:

If Python ever adopts the BCPL rule for implicit line continuation if the last thing on a line is an operator (or if there's an open parentheses), then the break-after-an-operator rule would be more persuasive. ;)

[IIRC, the BCPL rule was that there was an implicit continuation if the grammar would not allow inserting a semicolon at the end of the line, which covered both the open-parens and last-item-is-operator cases, and probably a few others.] But I should shut up and leave shut discussions to python-ideas.

Sounds like Visual Basic. Meanwhile, Javascript's rule is that there's an implicit semicolon if and only if the grammar would not allow the two lines to be considered as a single statement. Insanity comes in all flavors.

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