On 1 September 2016 at 09:40, Greg Ewing
Guido van Rossum wrote:
Would this be enforced in the grammar or by the lexer? Since you say you expect the indentation to be enforced, that suggests it would be done by the grammar,
I think it could be done by having the lexer enter a mode where it swallows a newline that is followed by an indentation to a level greater than the starting level of the construct. Then no change would be needed to the grammar.
-- Greg
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Not sure if this is a good idea but it might also make some sense to in stead have an operator at the beginning of the line for example some languages have a chainging operator for method calls: my_object.m1() ..m2() being equivalent to my_object.m1() my_object.m2() It could also be possible to have a special swallow-the-preceding-newline operator or something of that effect. side note: the chainging operator does not work on the return value of the method thus the method no longer has to choose between returning useful info or `this` for chaining convenience.