On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 09:06:49AM -0700, Christopher Barker wrote:
> As for:
>
> %w[red green blue]
>
> The [] make it pretty clear at a glance that I'm dealing with a list -- but
> the lack of quotes is really likely to confuse me -- particularly if I have
> identifiers with similar names!
In another comment, you asserted that we all have editors that help
with typing quotes. Don't you have an editor that formats identifiers
differently from string literals?
I predict that even without colour or stylistic hinting, people will
soon get used to the syntax. The fact that space-seperated identifiers
are not legal in Python is a pretty huge hint that these aren't
identifiers.
Virtually overnight, the Python community got used to the opposite
change, with f-strings: something that looks like a string is actually
code containing identifiers and even arbitrary expressions:
f"Your score is {score}"
so I don't believe that this will be anywhere near the cognitive load
that you state, especially if you are using an editor that displays
strings in the different style to identifiers or numbers.
--
Steven
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