
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Stefano Borini <stefano.borini@ferrara.linux.it> wrote:
I am not a big fan either of my own idea. I just threw a bone to see if it has already been discussed or if anyone would envision other possible use cases for this notation.
Best place to go from here would be a preparser, which you can then publish. If, at some later date, someone else has a similar need, s/he can see what you did and either (1) use it as-is and utter a prayer of thanks that someone's done the work already; (2) tweak it to fit the exact situation required; or (3) grumble at your code, and come back to python-ideas with a proposal. The proposal from #3 would sound something like this: "Here's my use-case. There's this recipe on the internet <link> but it's awkward because X and Y, and it'd be so much better if this could be supported by the core language." And then we'd have this long and fruitful discussion (Sir Humphrey Appleby would approve!), figuring out whether it's of value or not, all with the solid basis of two separate use-cases for the same new syntax. ChrisA