Marko Rauhamaa writes: > Jussi Piitulainen: > > > a+ b => 7 # a() + b > > a +b => 3 # a(+b) => a(b) => a(1) = 1 + 2 > > > > I'm not quite fond of such surprise in programming language > > syntax. > > Yes, whoever came up with the idea of whitespace having syntactic > significance!
How far do you want to go? Is "a b + c" the same as "a(b) + c" or the same as "a(b + c)"? There's meant to be two spaces between "a" and "b" but I lost one of them, twice, to my M-q reflex when writing the above paragraph. They may or may not be there as I send this. And I don't really want to know which it is. I prefer parentheses. They are not nearly as fragile. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
