On 18-12-28 22:54, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:
Sorry for sounding over-reactive, but yes, this could make Python look
like Perl.
Yes, this may introduce Perl's style irreversibly, we need to be
cautious about this.
I'm thinking, if people ask these questions in their mind when reading a
piece of Python code:
1, "Is this Python code?"
2, "What's the purpose of this code?"
3, "How can I modify it if I want to ... ?"
Maybe Python is on a doubtful way.
There is an interesting question: Will literal p"" ruin Python's (or
other dynamic languages like Ruby) style? Why will this happen?
And a 3rd shortcoming - flags can't be passed as parameters, and have
to be built-in the regexp themselves, further complicating the readability even
for very simple regular expressions.
IMO this is an advantage, it's hard to omit flags when reading/copying
an regex pattern.
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