[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 318: Decorators last before colon
David Eppstein
eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Mon Apr 5 22:34:38 EDT 2004
> > > There are several parsing problems with <...>: the lexer doesn't see <
> > > and > as matched brackets, so you won't be able to break lines without
> > > using a backslash, and the closing > is ambiguous -- it might be a
> > > comparison operator.
>
> Re the lexer, I don't see this as a big problem as long as multiple
> declarators can be handled by multiple <...> pairs.
...besides, how hard can it be to convince the lexer to treat '<' at the
start of a non-continuation line differently from other placements of
the same char?
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David Eppstein http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science
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