Hi,
On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 at 15:12, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
> This layout style is not something I've ever seen used in "real life",
> and I don't think it's something that should be encouraged, much less
> added to the language.
> More likely because there are two common schools of thought - lists
> have punctuation *separating* items, and lists have punctuation
> *terminating* items. I don't even know a commonly used term for the
> idea of having something *before* each item.
If Roland wants to prepend each item of his list, he can always write
>>> yaml.load(io.StringIO("""
... - a
... - b
... - c"""))
giving ["a", "b", "c"] ;-)
The point being: it's actually very common to prepend each item of a
list with a character, arguably more common than after each item.
That character may be '-', '•', '∗', but I've never seen ',' used. In
most cases, each item in such lists appears on a separate line. Apart
from the YAML example given above, this style is used in many
ReST/Markdown/ASCIIdoc/wikitext flavours and on whiteboards and
notebooks in English, Russian, Swahili, and Volapük around the world.
Regards,
Gerrit.
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