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Re: How to fix those errors?

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Date 2014-11-17 12:05 +1100
Subject Re: How to fix those errors?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> for people who have a broken keyboard or have remapped colon to something
> else. It would also make reading slices an exciting adventure:
>
>     seq[1,,,,][,,,,,,,,-1]
>
>
> What do you think? Is it perhaps better suited to perl-ideas?

Actually, I think this would fit in very nicely with C's trigraphs -
an excellent idea spoiled by the use of the arbitrary number three.
Using even numbers, especially powers of two, will make the idea ever
so much better.

ChrisA

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How to fix those errors? Abdul Abdul <abdul.sw84@gmail.com> - 2014-11-16 22:32 +0100
  Re: How to fix those errors? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-16 23:04 +0100
    Re: How to fix those errors? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-11-16 23:13 +0100
      Re: How to fix those errors? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-17 09:22 +1100
        Re: How to fix those errors? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-17 11:38 +1100
          Re: How to fix those errors? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-17 12:05 +1100
          Re: How to fix those errors? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-11-16 21:55 -0500
            Re: How to fix those errors? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-17 14:06 +1100
              Re: How to fix those errors? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2014-11-19 13:02 +1000
                Re: How to fix those errors? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-19 14:40 +1100
                Re: How to fix those errors? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2014-11-21 20:21 +1000
            Re: How to fix those errors? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-11-18 20:25 +1300
              Re: How to fix those errors? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-18 18:37 +1100
              Re: How to fix those errors? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-11-19 08:00 -0800
            Re: How to fix those errors? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-19 09:33 +1100

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