On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
Honestly, is a backslash going to kill you?
Aye, given the cost-benefit ratio on this one, I'll be rather surprised if anyone ever actually fixes it. I just wanted to be clear that I'm not *philosophically* opposed to fixing it (since I think Barry's proposed behaviour makes more sense from a user perspective), I'm just fairly sure it's likely to be hard to fix without making the Grammar harder to maintain, which *would* be a difficult sell for something that's a relatively trivial wart :)
Yeah, the problem is that when you see a '(' immediately after 'with', you don't know whether that's just the start of a parenthesized expression or the start of a (foo as bar, blah as blabla) syntactic construct. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)