Proposed new syntax
Cecil Westerhof
Cecil at decebal.nl
Thu Aug 10 16:45:59 EDT 2017
Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:
> On 8/10/2017 10:28 AM, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
>> Every few years, the following syntax comes up for discussion, with some people
>> saying it isn't obvious what it would do, and others disagreeing and saying
>> that it is obvious. So I thought I'd do an informal survey.
>>
>> What would you expect this syntax to return?
>>
>> [x + 1 for x in (0, 1, 2, 999, 3, 4) while x < 5]
>
> I expect it to continue to raise SyntaxError as I would be flabbergasted
> if something so awful were to be accepted into Python.
Correct:
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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Cecil Westerhof
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