On Sat, 29 Apr 2023 at 23:01, <p...@adamek.name> wrote: > > Ad 4) Wouldn't "<=" be a little more logical than "=>"? The perceived > direction of the "flow" of the default value is exactly opposite, i.e., the > default value is always evaluated and then put *into* the argument. >
Using arrows to represent information flow has been done, for example in APL and R, but it's generally not been a significant benefit. C++ uses flow operators in a delightfully cute way that gets old after about the second time you actually use it. (Python has done similarly cute things with certain operators, with mixed results. I think Pathlib has been quite successful, but there are others that are less so.) Flow direction simply isn't a valuable-enough piece of information to be worth reusing an existing operator and thus risking ambiguity. 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/G7ZZ3KBI44PAA26O36JXAIQNPCHBNYAT/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
