Thoughts on new grammar rules (PEP 284 in particular)

[David Eppstein]

In article <82undu4anb47usgck50ebil2ku1f36173q at 4ax.com>,
 Steve Horne <steve at lurking.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I was just reading PEP284 and, in general, I like it. The trouble is,
> I'd quite like these limit-specifications to be more general. For
> example, I'd quite like to write...
> 
>   if 0 <= x < 10 :
>     print "x is in range"
> 
> There is a big problem with this, of course - this is already legal
> Python, but the semantics aren't what I intend.

I don't understand your point -- what semantics do you intend for this 
test that are different from current Python?

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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
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