On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> wrote:
I think that is an awesome idea.
Violates TOOWTDI.
>>> print("This is an" + # traditional explicit operator ... " %s idea." % ("awesome" if False else "unimpressive")) This is an unimpressive idea. >>>
But you see you just helped me demonstrate my point: the Python interpreter *itself* uses ... as a line-continuation operater!
It also uses it when you define a class or function, should those declarations use Ellipsis everywhere too? (For reference:
class A: ... a = 1 ... def __init__(self, **kwargs): ... for k, v in kwargs.items(): ... if k != 'a': ... setattr(self, k, v) ... i = A()
But this is getting off-topic and the question is purely rhetorical.) -- Ian