On 04/29, Yury Selivanov wrote: > On 2015年04月29日 5:12 AM, Greg Ewing wrote: >> Yury Selivanov wrote:
>>> Looking at the grammar -- the only downside of the current >>> approach is that >>> you can't do 'await await fut'. I still think that it reads better with >>> parens. If we put 'await' to 'factor' terminal we would allow >>> >>> await -fut # await (-fut) >> >> Is there really a need to disallow that? It would take >> a fairly bizarre API to make it meaningful in the first >> place, but in any case, it's fairly clear what order >> of operations is intended without the parens. > > Greg, if grammar can prevent this kind of mistakes - it should. > I like my current approach. That's like saying we should always put parens around the number being raised in n ** x because -2**4 != (-2)**4 Please do not overuse parens. Python is not lisp, and await is not a function, so parens should not be needed in the common case. -- ~Ethan~ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com