On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 7:15 AM, Mikhail V <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 5:25 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 10:52 PM, Mikhail V <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Right? Your issues with tabs aside, I think it is impossible to ignore the >>> the readability improvement. Not even speaking of how >>> many commas and bracket you need to type in the first case. >> >> That's incredibly subjective. Or else straight-up wrong, I'm not sure which. > > Just admit it, you try to troll me (or just pretend, I don't know).
No, I am not trolling you. > Have you ever seen tables with commas left in there? It's called CSV. > I've never seen in my whole life. And you should understand why. > > Have you ever seen a website with sparse menu items or 'cloud' tags > with commas attached? > Have you ever heard someone claim that writing a 2d matrix down in a > single line is better that present it as a table? > > So what you find _incredibly_ subjective here? Neither of those examples is program code. You are asking for a syntactic change to a *programming language*. Everything you've said is fine for a non-code format. Nothing is applicable to a programming language. >> Why should this be a language feature? Why not just create a data file >> and then load it, or use a triple quoted string and write your own >> parser? What's the advantage of making this language syntax? > > I am not sure what happens if I make another argument - > if it feels so easy for you to deny the obvious improvements (which > also supported by whole worlds' typography experience) then you can > just as easy deny pretty everything. How would we build any conversation > then? Good question. You're clearly not interested in doing things the existing (and easy) way, so there's no point debating this. Fortunately for the rest of us, status quo wins a stalemate. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
