PEP0238 lament

[Michael Abbott]

Paul Foley <see at below> wrote in
news:m2y9pc5ljc.fsf at mycroft.actrix.gen.nz: 

> On 25 Jul 2001 10:23:14 -0700, Johann Hibschman wrote:
>
> ...  The printed representation of
> 
>            a
>           / \
>          b   c
> 
> as (a b c) is just an easier-to-deal-with form of "marshal" output.
> Nothing says you have to use that particular print representation,
> though everybody does.  

I would have thought that

    	a(b,c)

was a slightly more familiar print representation of the structure above!

Of course, sometimes it's nice to write

    	b `a` c

(stealing infix notation from Haskell here) for the same expression.