On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 10:36 AM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:16:16PM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> > Please explain how it's "spooky action at a distance" if it's a
> > self-contained assignment statement?
>
> "Spooky action at a distance" is your phrase, not mine, or Rob's.
>
> (I think David Mertz may have used it first, but I don't have to justify
> his choice of wording or agree with it.)

I don't remember who it was, but I was responding to that exact
phrase, and you jumped on me and said that my response wasn't a
response for reasons. So you were arguing in support of the phrase.

> > I know how much you love to argue, but really, this isn't productive.
>
> Are we arguing or are we trying to reach consensus on the desirable
> behaviour and syntax?

I'm really not sure. I'm arguing in favour of all the same things that
made f-strings worth having, but from a parsing point of view. You're
saying, hey, let's have all that, only not have any of it, and I have
no idea what you're actually pushing for. I'm asking for something
that has proven to be useful and practical in other languages, and
you're saying that it wouldn't be useful or practical. Not really sure
how this works.

ChrisA
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