On Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 15:59, Todd <toddr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently there is no empty set literal. This is a hold-over from when there
> were no sets. Now would be a good opportunity to add one. I suggest {}
> become an empty set and {:} be an empty dict.
There should be no need for two styles - now that Python has type
inference, it should be possible for users to just type {} and have
the interpreter work out which was intended from context. Any
ambiguity can easily be resolved by using a type hint.
Paul
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