Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com>: > 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.
No-one? That's what tripped up the original poster. > 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. There are numerous traditions: <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations> Just think of the several common ways of performing calculations with electronic calculators. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
