[Python-Dev] PEP 492 vs. PEP 3152, new round

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Apr 29 11:12:51 CEST 2015


Yury Selivanov wrote:
> Looking at the grammar -- the only downside of the current approach is that
> you can't do 'await await fut'.  I still think that it reads better with
> parens.  If we put 'await' to 'factor' terminal we would allow
> 
>     await -fut  # await (-fut)

Is there really a need to disallow that? It would take
a fairly bizarre API to make it meaningful in the first
place, but in any case, it's fairly clear what order
of operations is intended without the parens.

-- 
Greg


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