On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
Andre Roberge wrote: [snip] Any new use of ';' has to neither conflict with its current use nor introduce ambiguities that would push Python out of its current LL(1) (I believe it is) grammar class.
Thanks for the information; I've learned something new. [snip]
I agree that slices could have used something else, but....
don't hold your breath for a code-breaking change now.
I wasn't... I was thinking that, if any of these ideas were to be seen to have some merit, they would make their way in around Python 3.8 (10 to 12 years from now ;-) André
Terry Jan Reedy
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