python and macros (again) [Was: python3: 'where' keyword]
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Jan 13 15:35:08 EST 2005
"Antoon Pardon" <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be> wrote in message
news:slrncucmeo.5qu.apardon at rcpc42.vub.ac.be...
> Op 2005-01-13, Fredrik Lundh schreef <fredrik at pythonware.com>:
>> Antoon Pardon wrote:
>>
>>> Well, it seems that Guido is wrong then. The documentation clearly
>>> states that an expression is a statement.
>>
>> no, it says that an expression statement is a statement. if you don't
>> understand the difference, please *plonk* yourself.
>
> And what else is an expression statement but an expression (list) used
> as a statement.
Whereas an expression used within a statement is not a statement, and that
is the difference.
And of course, statements, in general, are not expressions and are not used
within statements (except within compound statements).
Terry J. Reedy
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