On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 10:02 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 09:22:09AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > Mathematicians and programmers both extend > > operators to new meanings, but only where it makes sense. > > In fairness, mathematicians typically just invent new symbols, when > they're not repurposing existing symbols for totally unrelated ideas :-( > > I count over 400 maths symbols in Unicode, including over 100 variations > on < and > and over 30 variations of the plus sign. > > So we want to be *really* cautious about following the lead of > mathematicians. >
Analytic continuation is basically "hey, let's imagine what this would be like if we did this where it doesn't make sense". And then, oddly, it makes sense anyway. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/AVQZ5PAC6D467RL4EIWIXBT4FI35J4OV/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
