[Python-ideas] Trial balloon: adding variable type

Michael Selik michael.selik at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 09:26:07 EDT 2016


On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 2:15 AM Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > But
> >
> >   x = ...
> >
> > already has a meaning -- it assigns x the (fairly pointless) value
> > Ellipsis
>
> You can always say
>
>     x = Ellipsis
>
> if you really want that.
>

I appreciate that ``...`` is pointless in the core so that I'm free to give
it a purpose in my own libraries. I prefer to write ``Ellipsis`` as ``...``.
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