On 04/07/2014 02:47 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com <mailto:n...@pobox.com>> wrote:

    > It would be nice to support A × B too, because it's much more
    > readable. You can configure a keyword to write arbitrary characters.
    > For example, on Linux you can write × using "Compose x x" if you
    > configured the Compose key. Or sometimes, you can replace "@"
    with "×"
    > using your favorite text editor (copy-paste from another script,
    from
    > a webpage, or something else).

    Sounds like a pretty major violation of TOOWTDI...


Python used to have an alias <> for != and I for one miss <> in 3.x. I don't think TOOWTDI should be the last word in this debate.

Right, and <> was removed because TOOWTDI. I am -1**3001 on adding redundant non-ASCII operators to the language. Python != APL.


/arry
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