On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 at 06:36, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Please no, Ruby has that, and the meaning of expressions depends on > whether you put whitespace around operators or not. > > Given: > > def a(x=4) > x+2 > end > b = 1 > > the result of "a+b" depends on the spaces around the plus sign: > > irb(main):005:0> a + b > => 7 > irb(main):006:0> a +b > => 3 Ewww. And people complain about *python's* use of significant whitespace???!?!! Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/