Are you all REALY=LU proposing more operators? Adding @ made sense because there was an important use case for which there was no existing operator to use.
But in this case, we have + and | available, both of which are pretty good options. Finally, which dicts are a very important ue ase, do we want to add an operator just for that? What would it mean for sets, for instance? I have to say, the whole discussion seems to me to be a massive bike-shedding exercise -- the original proposal was to simply define + for dicts. It's totally reasonable to not like that idea at all, or to propose that | is a better option, but this has really gone off the rails! I guess I say that because this wasn't started with a critical use-case that really needed a solution, but rather: "the + operator isn't being used for dicts, why not make a semi-common operation easily available" So my opinion, which I'm re-stating: using + to merge dicts is simple, non-disruptive, and unlikely to really confuse anyone - so why not? ( | would be OK, too, though I think a tad less accessible to newbies) But I don't think that having an operator to merge dicts is a critical use-case worth of adding a new operator or new syntax to the to the language. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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