Aug. 4, 2004
2:18 p.m.
For the record, let me just say that I'm -1 on adding this feature now. It's only a minor convenience while it's a fairly big change to the parser and code generator, but most of all, Python's growth needs to be reduced. If we were to add every "nice" feature that was invented (or present in other languages), Python would lose one of its main charms, which is that it is really a rather simple language that can be learned and put to production quickly. So while I appreciate the idea (which BTW has been proposed before) I think it's not worth adding now, and if you don't hear from me again on this topic it's because I haven't changed my mind... --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)