Comment on PEP-0238

[Thomas Wouters]

On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 06:13:33PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:

> I'm sorry, Alex, but `` is here to stay.  Guido is insanely fond of it!
> Meaning no more than that he doesn't hate it <0.9 wink>.  I see something
> like

>     print ``1`+`2``

> and to this day I still have no idea how Python manages to parse it
> correctly.

Holy crap! I can't believe Python parses that correctly -- for some form of
correctly, anyway, because I wouldn't know what it does without trying, and
that still doesn't say much about what the writer wanted :-) Still, great
parsers notwithstanding, I'd like to second Alex's idea of deprecating `` --
with appropriate warnings, of course.

-- 
Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>

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