On 01/26/2015 12:09 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:06:26 -0800 > Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: >> It destroy's the chaining value and pretty much makes the improvement not an >> improvement. If there's a possibility that >> the same key could be in more than one of the dictionaries then you still >> have to do the >> >> dict.update(another_dict) > > So what? Is the situation where chaining is desirable common enough?
Common enough to not break it, yes. > Not every new feature warrants a syntax addition - especially when it > raises eyebrows as here, and ends up being as obscure as Perl code. Not sure what you mean here -- the new feature is a syntax addition (or more appropriately a generalization of existing syntax). -- ~Ethan~
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