Ah, yes, sorry- it certainly holds that meaning to me as well. I agree with your stated views on this (and ratings): -1 on using backslash for this. -0 on λ. Thanks, S On 14/07/16 14:27, Chris Angelico wrote:
To me the backslash already has a fairly strong association with "the next character is a literal". Overloading it would feel very strange. But it also has the meaning of "the next character is special", such as \n for newline or \uNNNN for a Unicode escape. However, I suspect
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 11:22 PM, SW <walker_s@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: there might be a parsing conflict:
do_stuff(stuff_with_long_name, more_stuff, what_is_next_arg, \
At that point in the parsing, are you looking at a lambda function or a line continuation? Sure, style guides would decry this (put the backslash with its function, dummy!), but the parser can't depend on style guides being followed.
-1 on using backslash for this. -0 on λ.
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