[Python-ideas] Tighten up the formal grammar and parsing a bit?

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Thu May 18 09:03:35 EDT 2017


On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:17:48PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> > There's also cases where
> >
> >     if x > y:
> >         pass
> >     else:
> >         code
> >
> > is *not necessarily* the same as
> >
> >     if not (x > y):
> >         code
> >
> > (x > y) is not always not(x <= y). E.g. sets, and even floats.
> 
> Uhm.... not sure what you're getting at here. 

Neither am I, now :-)

I'm not quite sure what I was thinking, but it made sense at the time.

Sorry for the noise.



-- 
Steve


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