Just another syntactical suggestion: the binary ++ operator is used as concat in various contexts in various languages, and is probably less likely to confuse people as being either a logical or binary &.
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 6:53 AM Stephan Houben <stephan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Its the applications where it *is* important that > > we should be looking at. > > Um, yes, but given our relative positions in this debate, > the onus is not really on *me* to demonstrate such an application, right? > That would just confuse everbody ;-) > > (FWIW, Sagemath is not mostly "numerical processing", it is mostly > *symbolic* calculations and involves a lot of complex algorithms and > datastructures, including sequences.) > > Stephan > > 2017-06-27 13:48 GMT+02:00 Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>: > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 01:32:05PM +0200, Stephan Houben wrote: > >> Hi Steven, > >> > >> To put this into perspective, I did some greps on Sagemath, > >> being the largest Python project I have installed on this machine > >> (1955 .py files). > > > > And one which is especially focused on numerical processing, not > > really the sort of thing that does a much iterator chaining. That's > > hardly a fair test -- we know there are applications where chaining is > > not important at all. Its the applications where it *is* important that > > we should be looking at. > > > > > > -- > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > > Python-ideas mailing list > > Python-ideas@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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