On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 3:02 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Mikhail V <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Now I have slightly different idea. How is about special-casing of this >> as a shortcut for append: >> >> L[] = item >> >> Namely just use the fact that empty slice is SyntaxError now. >> >> I understand this is totally different approach than operator >> overloading and maybe >> hard to implement, but I feel like it looks really appealing. >> And it is quite intuitive imo. For me the syntax reads like: >> "add new empty element and this element will be "item". >> >> No? > > Yes, if this were PHP.
Is it like that in PHP? > I still haven't seen any compelling argument against the append > method. -1 on introducing a new way to spell append. By me - there is just nothing against append() method. But I see from various posts in the web and SO - people just want to spell it compact, and keep the 'item' part clean of brackets. And that kind of makes sense. > ChrisA > _______________________________________________ > 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/
