Re: [q-lang-users] A proposal to adopt Python tuple syntax

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

John.Cowan wrote:
> It's plausible, I think, to stage the change in:  let 6.1 accept trailing
> commas everywhere, and start to warn about the old style (but still accept
> it as making a tuple); 6.2 then drops support for the old style, and
> plain parens are just for grouping thereafter.

Yup, that's the way to go. If noone objects, the transition will start 
with the next Q release.

> Something I didn't realize until today is that Python doesn't actually
> require parens around tuples: it's the comma that is the (currying)
> tuple constructor:

Yes, I know this. But in Q that shortcut is not possible, it would 
collide with the def and where clause syntax.

> A minor point is whether (,) and [,] will become legal ways to write the
> empty tuple and list respectively.  I don't much care either way.

Why would anyone want to have this? I don't see what this would buy.

Albert

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