samir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But how would you discern between a function reference and a function > > call? > > That would be a problem with two solutions: > 1- If the function doesn't have any parameters, it will be called with > the empty parentheses (just like usual!); > 2- to indicate that this is a function call, we would be adding a $ at > the end of the statement.
What a mess it would be to disambiguate statements such as x = foo bar baz bat is it x = (foo, bar, baz, bat) or x = foo(bar, baz, bat) or x = foo(bar(baz), bat) or x = foo(bar, baz(bat)) or x = foo(bar(baz, bat)) or ... [even ignoring the possibility that one or more of these might be functions callable without arguments...!!!]... iPython has some heuristics that may be reasonable for the commandline (and are, in any case, at least simple), but in practice I find that I go back to using the good old interactive Python interpreter rather than putting up with even those simple heuristics. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
