I was wondering if I could take the liberty to ask monks whether they have had thoughts on the absence of parenthesis in Python. And whether that has altered the evolution of the Python language in their opinion. Conversely also whether the presence of parenthesis has altered the evolution of Perl (Perl seems to encourage the condensing of complex code to one-liners - which is great if you have written the code yourself, but difficult for others to read). I was thinking about this yesterday when learning about immutable tuples in Python. I wondered whether Perl programmers would simply instead specify an array, as named, to a particular scope as specified by parenthesis. That is just one example, there must be loads of other examples like this.

Could a future version of Python finally adopt parenthesis? Do people have thoughts on that? I don't really understand why Python would ultimately not want to use parenthesise.

Update________

I have to apologise. I don't mean parenthesis, instead I mean nesting using curly brackets.

In reply to Evolution of python by betmatt

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