Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)

On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:55:36 +0100, Bart wrote:

There's lot of things that language syntax might not need. For example,
I could dispense with the closing parentheses here:
 
   x = (a + (b + (c + d
 
as they can supplied as needed at end-of-line.

Then you can’t continue an expression across multiple lines.

There was one language vaguely I recall (might have been a Lisp dialect)
where a single “]” would be interpreted as closing all currently-unmatched
“(”. Scheme, I believe, realizes that long lines of “))))” just make the
(human) reader’s eyes glaze over, so they allow “[” and “]” with the same
meanings as “(” and “)”, but you must pair like with like. As if “)])]” is
much of an improvement.

People can, and do, experiment with many different ideas in programming
languages.