I personally find the ?keyword pattern has less appeal than ?, ?? or ?. . On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
On 1 November 2016 at 20:28, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
On 1 November 2016 at 10:11, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
I do think it would be worth covering the symbol+keyword option discussed in PEP 531 (i.e. "?else" instead of "??", but keeping "?.", and "?[")
FWIW, I'm not keen on it.
As a technical question, would it be treated in the syntax as a keyword, which happened to be made up of a punctuation character followed by letters, or as a ? symbol followed by a keyword?
Combined keyword, rather than two distinct tokens.
If you don't do that, you end up creating ambiguities for other possible uses of "?" (like the "." and "?[]" suggestions)
Cheers, Nick.
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