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 _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
