On 25May2018 02:32, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>
wrote:
On Fri, 25 May 2018 08:02:38 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
I'm also against the "**" spelling I find, for much the same reasons
that people oppose allowing "=" and "==" in the same syntactic location:
they're easy to get wrong through typing inaccuracy.
Do you often write
y = 2**x
when you meant 2*x?
Well, no, but in that context they mean very different things. Your * vs **
mean very similar things.
In any case, I'm not wedded to the ** spelling, MRAB's suggestion of @
would work for me too.
Hmm, perhaps.
I rarely use the * list replicator myself (though I used it just the other day
to prefill a list with None). What's your commonest use case? And also, what's
you're commonest use case which is prone the the issue a shallow copy would
help with?
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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