On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:27 AM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 2:07 AM Franklin? Lee
> <leewangzhong+pyt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > For example,
> >     if (A <: B or A <: C) and A <: D:
> > is not much better than
> >     if issubclass(A, (B, C)) and issubclass(A, D):
> > especially if you don't know what either of those mean. You can search
> > for issubclass, but you can't search for <:.
>
> Please can people stop trotting out this tired argument? I just typed
> "<:" (without the quotes) into Google - or rather, into my Chrome
> omnibar - and the first hit was a Stack Overflow question regarding
> the "<:" operator in Scala, the second is Scala documentation about
> "Upper Type Bounds" which looks plausible, and then there are a few
> others that may or may not be related.
>
> Symbols CAN be searched for, both in Google and in many documentation
> tools.
>

It's still harder. E.g. the wikipedia article on subtyping does not show in
the search results for "<:", and searching for "<: wikipedia" ignores the
"<:" entirely and just searches for "wikipedia".

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