I like the present print statement because parentheses are
inconvenient to type compared to lowercase letters, and it looks less
cluttered without them. The parentheses in writeln("hello world")
don't add any more meaning than a terminating semicolon would, so why
are they necessary?Why not instead change the language so as to allow any function call to be written without parentheses (when this is unambiguous)? This could make Python more convenient for creating imperative-style DSLs (though I'm not sure this is a goal). In any case, I think "write" would be better than "print", because it is easier to type (at least for me; reaching for 'w' and than 'r' goes much faster than reaching for 'p'). I don't like "writeln" though, as in 9 of 10 cases I want the line break to be there. I'd rather have write add the line break, and "writeraw" or somesuch exclude it. By the way, if print has to go, then what about the assert, raise, and import statements? Should these be changed to use function call syntax as well? (By the way, assert and raise could be methods: ZeroDivisionError.assert(denom != 0). Surprising that Java doesn't do this ;-) Fredrik _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
