pre-PEP: Suite-Based Keywords

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Bengt Richter wrote:

> Stretching for it, using my latest and greatest ;-)
> 
>     y = f(**::
>            x = 1
>            y = 'y for f'
>         )*g(**::
>            x = 'x for g'
>            y = 'y for g'
>            def foo(): return 'foo for g'
>         )
> 
> Note that there is no problem adding other parameters, because ::<suite> is just
> a unary expression returning dict subtype instance, e.g.,
> 
>     y = f(11,22,**::
>            x = 1
>            y = 'y for f'
>         )*g(*args_from_somewhere, **::
>            x = 'x for g'
>            y = 'y for g'
>            def foo(): return 'foo for g'
>         )

You know that this is dead ugly?

The real ``problem'' (if you see one) is that the indentation syntax
doesn't allow for suites in expressions.

Reinhold