Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

[Matthew Danish]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 07:27:49PM -0700, Michael Geary wrote:
> > > In general, I'm wary of notations like "f x" that use whitespace as an
> > > operator (see http://www.research.att.com/~bs/whitespace98.pdf).
> 
> > Hmm, rather curious paper.  I never really though of "f x" using
> > whitespace as an operator--it's a delimiter in the strict sense.  The
> > grammar of ML and Haskell define that consecutive expressions form a
> > function application.  Lisp certainly uses whitespace as a simple
> > delimiter...
> 
> Did you read the cited paper *all the way to the end*?

Why bother?  It says "April 1" in the Abstract, and got boring about 2
paragraphs later.  I should have scare-quoted "operator" above, or
rather the lack of one, which is interpreted as meaning function
application.

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