On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 9:43 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Your reply could easily be read as "this is a bad idea, and you shouldn't
> have bothered writing it down". I hope that was not your intention, and
> instead it comes from handling self-indulgent people expecting things from
> you all day. I know, I get those requests too. I'll assume that was not
> your intention in my answers below.
>
Barry Scott wrote:
> > I think this has been discussed before and rejected.
>
> Do you have a link to that discussion, or is this just from memory? What
> should I search for to find this discussion? Why was it rejected?
>
Try googling "python-ideas string prefixes". Doing mimimal diligence is a
reasonable expectation before writing up an idea.
> If the tags are called as functions then you can do it today with this:
> > def html(s):
> > return s
> > HEAD = html('<head>')
>
> If I'm not missing anything, this doesn't help with syntax highlighting?
> Highlighting is the problem I'm talking about in my post above.
>
Not true. A syntax highlighter can certainly recognize html('...') just as
it can recognize html'...'.
--- Bruce
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