[Python-ideas] Extending expressions using ellipsis

[Ryan Hiebert]

> On Sep 1, 2016, at 1:40 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> 
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> Would this be enforced in the grammar or by the lexer? Since you say
>> you expect the indentation to be enforced, that suggests it would be
>> done by the grammar,
> 
> I think it could be done by having the lexer enter a mode
> where it swallows a newline that is followed by an indentation
> to a level greater than the starting level of the construct.
> Then no change would be needed to the grammar.

+1

This is what I would like. It wouldn't require the ellipsis marker, AFAICT, and would eliminate so many parenthesis and backslashes from my code.