[Python-Dev] ',' precedence in documentation

[C. Titus Brown]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:45:39PM +0200, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
-> > And replace it with what?
-> 
-> I'm sure this will evolve into a long discussion on syntax, so
-> I'll start: assert could become a function with one or two
-> arguments. The arguments would always get evaluated; the actual
-> exception-raising could still be conditional (perhaps through
-> a context manager).

Doesn't this change the behavior in optimized code, for assert
statements with side effects?  If we don't have specialized syntax --
that is, if 'assert' just becomes another built-in function -- then it
can't be special-cased in the translation to byte-code, can it?

--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu