Terry Reedy wrote: > On 12/14/2009 1:10 PM, geremy condra wrote: >> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3003/ > > The moratorium does not stop proposals for things to be added after the > moratorium ends. But it does show that Guido and the devs are reluctant > to make *any* change to the core syntax of 3.x without really good > reason. Absent that, I would not mind if the syntax remains frozen for > the rest of 3.x. A minor abbreviation that makes the language look more > like Perl will not cut it. > > Terry Jan Reedy >
I agree, string slicing syntax is already a little oblique, it certainly doesn't need complicating. Anyway... Simple is better than complex. Readability counts. If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea. Roger. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list