On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 13:56, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > For usage, whether something is a macro or not should either be irrelevant > (when they're used as a more powerful function call or > decorator), or else entirely obvious from the way you use it (when they're > defining a new pseudo-statement), so it doesn't make sense to > emphasize the syntactic marker too much.
IMHO `import!` can be easily confused with `import`, even with a monospace font. An alternative is that macro must have a name different from keywords (so you will have macro_import!, for example), even if I'd prefer my first proposal (maybe something like %import). > Putting the marker gives the compiler the info and reader the info they need > without being too obtrusive (and also matches the way Rust > macros are used). Using "!" as a prefix operator is also effectively already > claimed by IPython for shell command execution, so I'd be > surprised if we ever used that spelling for anything else. Python uses None instead of Null and try-except instead of try-catch :-) PS: I agree with the rest of the post. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/H5N5YE5JYSZZTR73CJLJNUTWRDPRYN2R/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
