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Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:29:59 +1300
From: Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: Multi-dimensional list initialization
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On 08/11/12 12:06, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> On 7 November 2012 22:16, Joshua Landau<joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> That said, losing:
>> [0] * (2, 3) == [0] * [2, 3]
>> would mean losing duck-typing in general.

There are precedents for this kind of thing; the
string % operator treats tuples specially, for
example.

I don't think it's all that bad if you regard
the tuple as effectively part of the syntax.

-- 
Greg