16 Nov
2017
16 Nov
'17
11:09 p.m.
On 2017-11-16 21:44, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
16.11.17 19:38, Guido van Rossum пише:
Who would benefit from changing this? Let's not change things just because we can, or because Perl 6 does it.
I don't know. I know the disadvantages of making this change, and I ask what is the benefit. If there is a benefit, and it is important for Python, I could implement this feature in re and regex.
You could see what some more languages, e.g. C#, do. If there isn't a consensus of some kind, it's best to leave it.