[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Neil Cerutti wrote: > > > The parenthesis I added means I don't have > > to use the new-line escape character (\), either. > > Is this so unconscious that you don't recognize you are doing it, even > though you take a sentence to explain what you had to do to work around > it?
Yes, it is pretty unconscious. We all do many things unconsciously in everyday life that would take at least one sentence to explain to someone else if we had to think about it. Besides, in many cases the required brackets are already there -- e.g. if it's a list, or a function call with many arguments -- in which case you don't have to add anything at all. > Adding parentheses ... all this is a > burden specific to Python. As opposed to Lisp, where all you have to do is use parentheses... oh, er... > By the way, you guys seem fixate on the parentheses of Lisp without > having the experience I don't know about the other Pythonistas in this discussion, but personally I do have experience with Lisp, and I understand what you're saying. I have nothing against Lisp parentheses, I just don't agree that the Lisp way is superior to the Python way in all respects, based on my experience with both. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
