On Dec 25, 1:45 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:54:07 -0800, Eelco wrote: > > Context dependence is not something to be avoided at all costs, but all > > else being equal, less is certainly more. The general concept of > > grouping thing together which parenthesis is an extremely pervasive one > > in programming, and thus deserves its own set of context-dependent > > rules. Packing and unpacking collections is far, far more rare, > > Not in Python, where it is a very common idiom.
I know we are talking about python; it was me that put that in the title, after all. I know python makes more use of this than some languages (and less than others; I wouldnt suggest such a verbose syntax for a functional language for instance). Anyway, braces are used at least an order of magnitude more than collection packing/ unpacking in typical code. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
