Agree with Serhiy. IIRC Ruby allows skipping brackets for a function call, this is very confusing sometimes
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 18:54 Antal Gábor <antalgabor1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Couldn't agree more. > > On 2020. 10. 20. 16:43, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > > 20.10.20 12:54, J. Pic пише: > >> At the same time, Guido says he can remove that cost for no extra > >> cost, so there's that: how do we find a good reason to not remove a > >> cost for free ? Sounds like a win/win situation, both for most users > >> and for the new pegparser. > > It may have closer to zero cost of the initial implementation, but the > > cost of maintaining, supporting in different standard and third-party > > modules, teaching and learning, and using is far from zero. > > > > Just look how many special cases Python 2 print has: print without > > arguments, printing a tuple, print >>, print with trailing comma. And > > the latter feature ("soft" space) is not supported by files in Python 3, > > so you would need to change them too, and all file-like objects in the > > world. > > > > Getting rid of the print statement was one of the largest achievements > > of Python 3 (after all-unicode). > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/2X2VRTTVCMPVPHKFGS66LVUNRXPOULYF/ > > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > _______________________________________________ > 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/67ZO7KAIXHORZDXHMEILW6G3QJM4RORL/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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