[Python-3000] No Container Literals

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Jul 10 02:03:53 CEST 2006


Calvin Spealman wrote:
> Just throwing this out there, but I would love to see a complete
> dropping of container literals from Python. ... it would allow
> things like list(1, 2, 3) ... I feel they seem much more
> readable,

That's highly debatable. There's semiotic value in not
having everything built out of function calls.

--
Greg


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