On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 22:54:32 +1200 Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > On 17/08/20 9:58 pm, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Probably because exploiting Python abstraction facilities to build DSLs > > has/had long been frown upon in this community? That was the leitmotiv > > back when people were marvelling over Ruby's flexibility in the area. > > As far as I remember, what was frowned on was adding weird and > wonderful syntax (e.g. function calls without parens) to Python > purely because "it might be useful for DSLs".
Notice that such weird and wonderful syntax was proposed again by Guido recently... And as I said, annotations have become a DSL in themselves, and several PEPs are dedicated to that DSL. > There's nothing > wrong with using existing features to build DSLs (although > people might look askance at you if you use them in particularly > obscure ways). Well, we're not talking about an existing feature in this thread. Regards Antoins. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/SZQUVE3TQEJARYLPPKI63TKEVTFBWPDH/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
