Conclusions of the exception discussion

[bearophile]

Timon Gehr:

> Do you realize that syntactic sugar improvements are trivial to 
> implement (just re-write the AST a little), and have almost no influence 
> on the existing code base?

In my opinion it's good to have a syntax to catch a many exceptions "at once".
But this is yet another special syntax case for a sequence of things, where instead a built-in tuple syntax is more uniform and better. Tuples are a data structure more fundamental and more important than associative arrays.

In Python this syntax caused troubles:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3110/

Bye,
bearophile