Comment on PEP-0238

[Greg Ewing]

Thomas Wouters wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 06:13:33PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> >     print ``1`+`2``
> 
> Holy crap! I can't believe Python parses that correctly

I think it works because if you see a ` when you're expecting
the beginning of an expression it must be an opening-`, whereas
if you see one just after you've seen a complete expression
it must be a closing-`. Or something like that.

I was quite surprised[1] when I first saw it, too.

[1] Or, in other words, horrified.

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