[Python-3000] Ellipsis Literal

[Gisle Aas]

On Jan 24, 2008, at 20:32, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Some folks thought it would be cute to be able to write incomplete
> code like this:
>
> class C:
>   def meth(self): ...
>   ...
>
> and have it be syntactically correct.

I think it would be been nice if "..." raised an NotYetImplemented  
exception if executed as a lone statement.  Is that desirable and  
doable?

BTW, Perl 6 also introduce the same feature and Larry calls it the  
"yadayadayada operator"[1].

Regards,
Gisle

>
> PEP 3100 has the reference:
> * ``...`` to become a general expression element [16]_ [done]
> .. [16] python-3000 email
>    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-April/000996.html

[1] http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S06.html