Please take this to python-ideas.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Joe Smith wrote:
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> Jared Grubb wrote:
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>> I'm not a EBNF expert, but it seems that we could modify the grammar to
>> be more restrictive so the above code would not be silently valid. E.g.,
>> "++5" and "1+++5" and "1+-+5" a
Jared Grubb wrote:
I'm not a EBNF expert, but it seems that we could modify the grammar to
be more restrictive so the above code would not be silently valid. E.g.,
"++5" and "1+++5" and "1+-+5" are syntax errors, but still keep "1++5",
"1+-5", "1-+5" as valid. (Although, '~' throws in a kin
I was recently reviewing some Python code for a friend who is a C++
programmer, and he had code something like this:
def foo():
try = 0
while tryI was a bit surprised that this was syntactically valid, and because
the timeout condition only occurred in exceptional cases, the error
has n
