Oct. 27, 2003
5:08 p.m.
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:51:16AM -0800, 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).
I'm not wedded to the :: digraph, I prefer the concept. :: was nice because it re-used a similar concept from C++. No other digraph jumps out at me. Some other possibilities (I don't care for any of these): Global Nested ------ ------ :>variable scope:>variable *>variable scope*>variable ->variable scope->variable ?>variable scope?>variable &>variable scope&>variable Or perhaps variations using <. Neal