PEP 308: some candidate uses cases from live code

[Andrew Koenig]

Steve> However, it clearly introduces new precedence problems into the
Steve> syntax: how do I know you meant

Steve>     self.stream.writeln("Ran %d test%s in %.3fs" %
Steve>                        (run, (if run==1: "" else: "s"), timeTaken)

Steve> and not (apart from the run-time error it would produce)

Steve>     self.stream.writeln("Ran %d test%s in %.3fs" %
Steve>                        (run, if run==1: "" else: ("s", timeTaken))

Steve> Methinks anything that allows colons inside expressions will be
Steve> tough for us to read.

I'm not introducing any new precedence problems.

You know which of the alternatives above I mean in the same way you know that

        foo(lambda x, y: x, y)

means

        foo((lambda x, y: x), y)

and not

        foo(lambda x, y: (x, y))

You can like or dislike the existing rules for colons inside expressions,
but I'm not proposing to change them.

-- 
Andrew Koenig, ark at research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark