Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

Michael Geary Mike at DeleteThis.Geary.com
Mon Oct 20 22:27:49 EDT 2003


> > 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*?

-Mike






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