4 Oct
2021
4 Oct
'21
6:12 a.m.
On 4/10/21 6:23 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 9:20 PM Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@gmail.com <mailto:jcgoble3@gmail.com>> wrote:
Therefore my vote is for requiring `except* E` and keeping `except *E` as a SyntaxError.
You can't do that with our current lexer+parser.
I don't think it would be desirable in any case. The separation of tokens into alphanumeric and non-alphanumeric is deeply embedded in every Python programmer's brain by now, and we shouldn't mess with it. -- Greg