[Python-ideas] Definition Symmetry

[Steven D'Aprano]

On 01/02/13 03:35, Jason Keene wrote:
> Why do function definitions require parens?
>
>>>> class MyClass:
> ...     pass
> ...
>>>> def my_func:
>    File "<stdin>", line 1
>      def my_func:
>                 ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> This seems to me to break a symmetry with class definitions.

Why do you think that class definitions and function definitions
should be symmetrical?



-- 
Steven