On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 19:11:33 +1000 Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 4:06 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> > wrote: > > Chris Angelico wrote: > >> > >> I'd love to hear an explanation of WHY this doesn't look like Python > >> any more. For instance, is the + operator somehow wrong for Python, > >> and it should have been the word "add"? > > > > > > There's a very long tradition of using the symbol "+" to > > represent addition, so it's something most people are > > familiar with. There's no such tradition for the new > > operators being proposed. > > Okay. What about bitwise operators, then? They don't have centuries of > mathematical backing to support them, yet it isn't considered > "unpythonic" to have &|^~ peppering our code. They have decades of widespread presence in other programming languages, though. > Coalescing None to a value is _at least_ as common as > performing bit manipulations in integers. Certainly, but spelling that as a "?*" operator is a syntactical novelty. Consider that for the ternary operator, Python chose "B if A else C" over "A ? B : C", even though the latter had precedent in several languages. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
