Argh, you're correct. Thanks for the catch. On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 10:06 AM Stephan Houben <stephan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately this is existing syntax: > > a++b > is parsed as > a+(+b) > > Stephan > > > Op 27 jun. 2017 6:03 p.m. schreef "Joshua Morton" < > joshua.morto...@gmail.com>: > > Just another syntactical suggestion: the binary ++ operator is used as > concat in various contexts in various languages, and is probably less > likely to confuse people as being either a logical or binary &. > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 6:53 AM Stephan Houben <stephan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > Its the applications where it *is* important that >> > we should be looking at. >> >> Um, yes, but given our relative positions in this debate, >> the onus is not really on *me* to demonstrate such an application, right? >> That would just confuse everbody ;-) >> >> (FWIW, Sagemath is not mostly "numerical processing", it is mostly >> *symbolic* calculations and involves a lot of complex algorithms and >> datastructures, including sequences.) >> >> Stephan >> >> 2017-06-27 13:48 GMT+02:00 Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>: >> > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 01:32:05PM +0200, Stephan Houben wrote: >> >> Hi Steven, >> >> >> >> To put this into perspective, I did some greps on Sagemath, >> >> being the largest Python project I have installed on this machine >> >> (1955 .py files). >> > >> > And one which is especially focused on numerical processing, not >> > really the sort of thing that does a much iterator chaining. That's >> > hardly a fair test -- we know there are applications where chaining is >> > not important at all. Its the applications where it *is* important that >> > we should be looking at. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Steve >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Python-ideas mailing list >> > Python-ideas@python.org >> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas >> > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-ideas mailing list >> Python-ideas@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> >
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