On Monday, February 06, 2006, at 03:12PM, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 20:02 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>> Donovan Baarda wrote:
>> > Before set() the standard way to do them was to use dicts with None
>> > Values... to me the "{1,2,3}" syntax would have been a logical extension
>> > of the "a set is a dict with no values, only keys" mindset. I don't know
>> > why it wasn't done this way in the first place, though I missed the
>> > arguments where it was rejected.
>>
>> There might be many reasons; one obvious reason is that you can't spell
>> the empty set that way.
>
>Hmm... how about "{,}", which is the same trick tuples use for the empty
>tuple?
Isn't () the empty tuple? I guess you're confusing this with a single element
tuple: (1,) instead of (1) (well actually it is "1,")
BTW. I don't like your proposal for spelling the empty set as {,} because that
is entirely non-obvious. If {1,2,3} where a valid way to spell a set literal,
I'd expect {} for the empty set.
Ronald
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