On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:42 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> However, this is a reasonable call for the abolition of unary plus... > > The only way you'll take unary plus out of Python is by prying it from my > cold, dead hands. > > > BTW, unary minus suffers from the same "problem": > > x =- y # oops, meant x -= y > > If anything, this is an argument against the augmented assignment > short-cuts, rather than the operators.
Yes, unary minus has the same issue - but it's a lot more important than unary plus is. In ECMAScript, unary plus means "force this to be a number"; what's its purpose in Python? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
