> And IMO the choice of "~=" or "=~" for the range match should be > avoided, since that looks like the regexp search operator in Perl, and > there "~= 3" would match "3", "3.0.4", and "2.3.5". The next obvious > interpretation is "fuzzy match", but that doesn't have an obvious, > more specific meaning. The usual comparson operators do have pretty > obvious interpretations, and are not hard to use.
On distutils-sig, a vocal fraction seems to think otherwise. From my short interaction there, I now think that comparison operators are indeed hard to use, and that the concept of a half-open interval, and how you can use relational operators involving the endpoints to denote it, is (apparently) *quite* advanced. More specifically, people fail to notice that saying "X.Y or X.Y+1" still specifies an interval. Being confronted with ">=X.Y, <X.Y+2", they quickly agree that it's equivalent. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
