Oct. 27, 2003
6 p.m.
Guido van Rossum wrote:
The only problem with using :: is a syntactic ambiguity:
a[x::y]
already means something (an extended slice with start=x, no stop, and step=y).
On the other hand: a[x y] doesn't mean anything, so I don't see an immediate problem. I like Neal's proposal, including the "::" digraph. Just