Jan. 31, 2013
4:43 p.m.
Just to be clear, I wasn't suggesting forcing parens for class definitions. Rather make them optional for functions! On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Jason Keene <jasonkeene@gmail.com> wrote:
Why do function definitions require parens?
class MyClass: ... pass ... def my_func: File "<stdin>", line 1 def my_func: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
This seems to me to break a symmetry with class definitions. I assume this is just a hold off from C, perhaps there is a non-historical reason tho.
I believe in the past we've forced parens in list comprehensions to create a symmetry between comprehensions/generator expressions. Why not for this?