allowing braces around suites

Kjetil Torgrim Homme kjetilho at yksi.ifi.uio.no
Mon Aug 30 20:06:36 EDT 2004


[Jacek Generowicz]:
>
>   Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho at yksi.ifi.uio.no> writes:
>   
>   > ["pass"] should only be used when a suite is required, but the
>   > suite should do nothing.
>   
>   I'll have to take your word for it, that this is THE WAY. Oh, wait
>   a minute ... I don't take people's word for it, and I don't
>   subscribe to programming dogmas, partuclarly when they get in the
>   way of getting something useful done. Never mind, then.
>   [...]
>   I'm not presupposing any convention, I'm observing the current
>   state of the world and finding a working solution in it. You are
>   tilting at windmills.

"I don't subscribe to programming dogmas", hmm?  I guess "braces are
unworthy of Python" isn't dogma, it's the Truth.

>   > and IMHO [abusing "pass" is] not worthy of a Python program.
>   
>   Whereas braces are worthy of a Python program.

certainly.  explicit is better than implicit, you know :-)

thank you for your input, I will cover the "pass" hack in the
PEP.
-- 
Kjetil T.



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