On 26-03-14 17:37, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Antoon Pardon > <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote: >> Of course we don't have to follow mathematical convention with python. >> However allowing any >> unicode symbol as an identifier doesn't prohibit from using √ as an >> operator. We do have >> "in" and "is" as operators now, even if they would otherwise be acceptable >> identifiers. >> So I wonder, would you consider to introduce log as an operator. 2 log x >> seems an interesting >> operation for a programmer. > If it's going to become an operator, then it has to be a keyword. > Changing a token that is currently allowed to be an identifier into a > keyword is generally avoided as much as possible, because it breaks > backward compatibility. "in" and "is" have both been keywords for a > very long time, perhaps since the initial release of Python.
I know, for such a reason I would love it if keywords would have been written like this: 𝗱𝗲𝗳 (using mathematical bold) instead of just like this: def (using plain latin letters). It would mean among other things we could just write operator.not instead of having to write operator.not_ -- Antoon Pardon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
