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[โ€“] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, Python kind of does the reverse of a semicolon: If you want to continue a statement over multiple lines, then you have to \ escape it.

That's not true. Being within parentheses, brackets, quotes, etc. is enough for the parser to know you're continuing. In practice, I find that context is already present in most cases.

For the other cases, occasionally surrounding an expression in parentheses is easy enough. Long conditionals probably deserve parentheses anyway, for clarity.

[โ€“] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Well, it mostly being already correct is what I meant with Python avoiding multi-line statements.

In JVM languages, Rust etc., it's for example popular to use Fluent Interfaces. These also reduce visual clutter and the number of variables in scope (and/or the need for mutability).

I did not know about enclosing them with parenthesis, but apparently that works, too, as this library shows: https://pypi.org/project/fluentpy/