Here's my opinion, in a nutshell. A diet with a small amount of sugar is healthy. But too much sugar is not. https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/how-does-sugar-in-our-diet-affect-our-health/
I have a similar attitude to syntactic sugar. Sometimes helpful. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16216994 Sometimes, perhaps not helpful. https://github.com/benthor/dictator https://github.com/czheo/syntax_sugar_python Every programming construct has semantics. Here's a suggestion. If you're proposing a syntax change, give a pure Python implementation of the semantics. For example (not tested). The construction >>> EXP_1 or EXP_2 is equivalent to >>> OR(lambda: EXP_1, lambda:EXP_2) where we have >>> def OR(fn_1, fn_2): >>> ... val = fn_1() >>> ... if val: return val >>> ... return fn_2() And if your proposal works with current Python, write and publish a pure Python implementation. And help others use it, listening to their feedback. So do it on github or the like, with an issue tracker. In short, if you have a proposal, publish some working code that implements the proposal. -- Jonathan _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
