On Oct 27, 2015, at 4:39 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On 27/10/2015 18:39, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
On 26.10.2015 20:54, Ethan Furman wrote: You misunderstand -- the order of string prefixes does *not* matter, so forcing us to use one is silly.
I don't think so.
It's better to have less possibilities in the beginning. So later on, we can easily relax the restrictions without breaking compatibility.
Best, Sven
Please no. Having a memory much like a bottomless sieve I have no intention of reading the manual every time I need to use string prefixes. Would the table listing "string prefix precedence" in The Fine Docs™ be unique in the programming world?
Plus, it's too late for this. What would the manual say: "either br or rb is okay, but you if you want fbr you can't spell it frb."? (Assuming we add binary f-strings.) Let's just leave it as any order, and with any capitalization. Eric.