28 Nov
2017
28 Nov
'17
6:15 a.m.
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 06:31:28PM -0800, Mike Miller wrote:
Believe the question behind the idea was, how to grab a couple items and then *stop?* If the syntax route is chosen, I'd expect something that tells me it is going to stop, like a "full stop" as the period/dot is called in jolly ol' England, e.g.:
x, y, . = iterable
Sadly, that fails the "syntax should not look like grit on Tim's monitor" test. Ellipsis at least has three pieces of grit in sequence, which makes it more noticable.
Not sure about the second comma though.
Without the comma, it will be visually too hard to distinguish from x, y , = iterable -- Steve