On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 08:00:26PM -0400, Jonathan Crall wrote:
> I wouldn't mind if this *only *worked for the specific characters "print".
I would. What's so special about print? It's just a function.
I use `iter` much more than print. Should we make a special exception
for only 'iter' too? Or instead?
`print` is especially problematic, because zero-argument form of print
is possible. This makes it a landmine waiting for the unwary:
print x, y, z # works
print x # works
# now print a blank line
print # silent failure
That's especially going to burn people who remember Python 2, where it
did print a blank line instead of evaluating to the `print` object.
--
Steven
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