Should we deprecate comma?
Andrei Alexandrescu
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Mon Mar 24 09:38:43 PDT 2014
On 3/24/14, 5:18 AM, "Marc Schütz" <schuetzm at gmx.net>" wrote:
> On Monday, 24 March 2014 at 04:00:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 3/23/14, 8:30 PM, bearophile wrote:
>>> How is this more limited change affecting possible future syntax usage
>>> of commas for tuples? :-)
>>
>> The change has an eye to that. Disallowing the use of the return value
>> offers us the future possibility of redefining it. -- Andrei
>
> This is nice, although I guess it will make parsing harder. It probably
> means that the distinction between "," as operator and tuple element
> separator will be context-dependent.
No, parsing stays the same. You can think of comma returning a tuple.
But for now we're forcing that tuple to never be used, so as to not
change code semantics.
Andrei
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