On Sep 22, 2015 1:09 PM, "Alexander Belopolsky" <
alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org>
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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