On 5/2/06, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Nick Coghlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you went for a syntactic notation for the empty set, I'd want to use > > {} and > > make the empty dict {:}, by that idea didn't even make your list of > > alternatives :) > > Those are my favorites also. The 2.x -> 3.0 edit of {} to {:} is trivial > for an auto-correct function.
That doesn't fix everybody's brain though. Given that sets are much less universally useful than dicts I don't think that dict should "give in". -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
