allowing braces around suites

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-08-28, Reinhold Birkenfeld <reinhold-birkenfeld-nospam at wolke7.net> wrote:
> Isaac To wrote:
>>>>>>> "Kjetil" == Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho at yksi.ifi.uio.no> writes:
>> 
>>     Kjetil> that's a hack, and IMHO not worthy of a Python program.
>>     Kjetil> not even Perl has anything like that, AFAIK.
>> 
>> Hm... hacks are not for Python?!  We see every kind of hacks
>> everywhere in Python just like it is in Perl, like (2,) syntax, etc.
>
> Why would you call (2,) syntax a hack?

Because so many people at first think that parens construct
tuples the way square-brackets and curly-brackets construct
lists. When in reality it's commas that construct tuples, but
only in certain contexts because commas are used for about
three other purposes as well.

> If you like, you can call tuple([2]), but I would consider _this_ an
> ugly solution or a "hack".

I would call it the former.

IMO, the only non-ugly, non-hack solution would be to have
another set of delimters that are used as tuple-constructors so
tha the syntax for a literal tuple, a literal list, and a
literal dictionary are consistent.

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