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Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be?

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On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:07 PM, John Ladasky <ladasky@my-deja.com> wrote:
>> One of my questions was: would there be any merit to having the Python "pass" token itself defined exactly as _pass() is defined above?
>
> No, there wouldn't. The Python 'pass' statement is a special statement
> that indicates a lack of anything to execute; a dummy function call
> isn't this. What I would kinda like to see, though, is function
> versions of many things. Your basic operators exist in the 'operator'
> module, but the syntax is rather clunky; for comparison, Pike has
> beautifully simple (if a little cryptic) syntax: back-tick followed by
> the operator itself, very similar to the way C++ does operator
> overloading.
>
> In Python 2, back-tick has a special meaning. In Python 3, that
> meaning is removed. Is the character now available for this
> "function-version" syntax?

Negative. I know this from personal experience.

Things that will Not Change in Python 3000
(http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3099/ ):
"No more backticks."

Cheers,
Chris R.

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What exactly is "pass"?  What should it be? John Ladasky <ladasky@my-deja.com> - 2011-11-17 18:18 -0800
  Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be? Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-11-17 18:45 -0800
    Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be? John Ladasky <ladasky@my-deja.com> - 2011-11-17 21:03 -0800
    Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be? John Ladasky <ladasky@my-deja.com> - 2011-11-17 21:03 -0800
  Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-11-18 13:59 +1100
    Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2011-11-17 22:04 -0800
  Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be? Dominic Binks <dbinks@codeaurora.org> - 2011-11-17 19:01 -0800
  Re: What exactly is "pass"?  What should it be? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-11-18 14:45 +1100
  Re: What exactly is "pass"?  What should it be? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-11-17 20:34 -0800
    Re: What exactly is "pass"?  What should it be? John Ladasky <ladasky@my-deja.com> - 2011-11-17 21:07 -0800
      Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-11-18 16:34 +1100
      Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be? Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-11-17 21:49 -0800
      Re: What exactly is "pass"?  What should it be? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-11-18 06:07 +0000
    Re: What exactly is "pass"?  What should it be? John Ladasky <ladasky@my-deja.com> - 2011-11-17 21:07 -0800
    Re: What exactly is "pass"?  What should it be? Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2011-11-18 10:57 +0100
  Re: What exactly is "pass"?  What should it be? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-11-18 13:03 +0000

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