+1 On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 05:46 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 5:40 AM David Mertz <mertz@gnosis.cx> wrote:
I think making 'Ellipsis' a reserved word is too much. The analogy with non-reserved words like `int`, `str`, `map`, `print`, and so on, illustrate this, I think. I.e. redefining those is likely to cause bad things to happen, but we're consenting adults, and in the end they are just names.
However, I think improving the repr() of the Ellipsis object itself to remind users of the connection with its special literal `...` is a great idea.
Originally, the notation "..." could only be used inside a subscript, and anywhere else, you'd have to spell it "Ellipsis". Now that you can use "..." anywhere, would it be worth switching the repr to just be that?
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