I personally find the ?keyword pattern has less appeal than ?, ?? or ?. . On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 November 2016 at 20:28, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 1 November 2016 at 10:11, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> I do think it would be worth covering the symbol+keyword option > >> discussed in PEP 531 (i.e. "?else" instead of "??", but keeping "?.", > >> and "?[") > > > > FWIW, I'm not keen on it. > > > > As a technical question, would it be treated in the syntax as a > > keyword, which happened to be made up of a punctuation character > > followed by letters, or as a ? symbol followed by a keyword? > > Combined keyword, rather than two distinct tokens. > > If you don't do that, you end up creating ambiguities for other > possible uses of "?" (like the "." and "?[]" suggestions) > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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