
April 17, 2020
9:20 a.m.
Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas writes:
But I don’t see why that rules out the “bare colon” form that I and someone else apparently both proposed in separate sub threads of this thread:
{ :a, "b": x, :c }
This sort of reminds me of the "leading colon" convention for keywords in Lisp, where a keyword is *defined* to be a symbol whose value is itself. Steve