On Sep 22, 2015 1:09 PM, "Alexander Belopolsky" < [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> it is broken, due to the confusion about classic vs. timeline arithmetic -- these have different needs but there's only one > operator. > > > I feel silly trying to defend a design against its author. :-) Yes, a language with more than one > symbol would not have some of these problems. Similarly a language with a special symbol for string catenation would not have a non-commutative + and non-distributive *. All I am saying is that I can live with the choices made in datetime.
Is there a good argument against at least deprecating inequality comparisons and subtraction between mixed timezone datetimes? It seems like a warning that would be likely to catch real bugs. -n
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