list_a-list_b

Michael Gilfix mgilfix at eecs.tufts.edu
Wed Apr 17 23:09:12 EDT 2002


  I think I'd be in favor of allowing some other grammer to extend
beyong a single line (not just () and [ ]). Something like = and ','
make sense to extend beyond one line and the extra indent is pretty
clear. I really like the idea, especially when assigning to object
instances with long names like:

	self.long_object.something[ index + 1 % something ] =
		blah

  It sure beats '\'.

              -- Mike

On Wed, Apr 17 @ 20:21, Bengt Richter wrote:
> If you want the form but not the looong one-liner:
> 
>     self.data[x][y].variable = (
>         self.long_function_name(
>             lots,
>             of,
>             arguments 
>         )
>     )
> 
> Hm, this makes me wonder if '=' could introduce an optionally indented expression block,
> using ident/dedent where the above is using = ( .. )

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