On Dec 25, 1:50 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:45:01 -0800, Eelco wrote: > > Can you give an example of a construct in python where two whitespace > > delimited identifiers are legal? > > Not apart from the trivial case of two identifiers separated by newlines. > > What's your point?
My point is as I originally stated it: that this construct, of two identifiers seperated by non-newline whitespace, as in 'list tail' does not occur anywhere else in python, so introducing that syntax, while i suppose technically possible, would be a break with existing expectations. Normally speaking, if two identifiers interact, they are explicitly 'joined' by an infixed operator of some sort, as in 3*4, rather than * 3 4. That seems a sensible rule to me, and I see no compelling reason to depart from it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
