On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:36 PM, David Mertz <mertz@gnosis.cx> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> wrote:

>   foo = 1

>   a = $(foo + 1)

Definitely nicer. Still irrationally uncomfortable about the "$" though.
A thought, though it could break existing code (and nested tuples, alas):

    a = (( foo + 1 ))

That looks like unresolvable ambiguity to me.  I confess that I am more comfortable with '$(...)' because I'm one of those folks who actually likes bash, and uses that spelling often over there (where the meaning isn't the *same* as this, but is enough similar for the meaning to carry over)

 

But this is Python, which is 10x better. And besides, that syntax gives me GNU make nightmares.

 

Still, what does this mean?
    a = 3 + (( foo + 1 ))
I think that would need to be a syntax error, because I can't see it being
anything except nonsense otherwise.

I see it as:

Create an anonymous function object that adds foo to 1. Then, try and add 3 to that resulting object(which obviously would fail). It'd be kind of like:

a = 3 + (lambda: foo+1)

a.k.a:

def myfunc(): return foo+1

a = 3+myfunc

or(somewhat clearer in C++):

SomeType a = 3 + [&]() { return foo+1; };

It's a bit more obvious of the error in the C++ example(or, at least to me).

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