On 06/05/2017 01:26 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Interestingly, however, Python hasn't extended that principle to the > expression syntax. You could have: > > >>> 1 + 2*3 > 7 > >>> 1+2 * 3 > 9
And thankfully they didn't. Because it wouldn't make sense to do so. Having whitespace indenting mimics how one thinks of blocks of code and how one might wright it in pseudocode. For expressions, however, no one thinks or writes pseudo-equations without considering the order of operations. Completely different things. Maybe if the use of parenthesis was relatively recent, you might make an argument, but unlike braces, the use of parenthesis to override order of operations goes back hundreds of years, far longer than programming languages have been defining blocks. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
