On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:25 PM, Michael Selik <m...@selik.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:08 AM Mikhail V <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 7:42 PM, Clint Hepner <clint.hep...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> So the idea was about an insert/append operator.
>> Which would use augmented operator. The operator may be
>> /= or ^=. (I like ^= more, so I'll put here example with it).
>
>
> The "/" operator means divide. How do you divide a list?
> The "^" operator means exclusive-or. Again, strange concept for a list.
>
Allowed standard characters are so - they already mean something and
there are so few (even less if throw away ugly looking).
For me the plus character + means sum of numbers.
So for an array:
A += 1
Means for me unequivocally increment each element of array by 1.
And this:
A += B
Means for me increment each element of A by corresponding values of B.
BTW that is how plus operator works for Numpy arrays.
So I don't think it is a precise thing how logical this or that character suits
an operation. Everybody understands that overloading of operators is
for convenience and it's just a shortcut for some frequent usage.
As I understand, overloading some operators for certain object type (list in
this case) has relatively low cost in terms of implementation.
As for me - I'm fine with append() method and use it all the time.
Frankly speaking, I was working on another syntax idea and
it turned out that actually augmented operators may be very useful for
that particular syntax design.
>
>>
>> L += var
>> and
>> L = L + var
>>
>> are different, so it seems to me they were not meant to be
>> bound together.
>
>
> One is mutation, the other isn't, but aside from that, the result is
> equivalent.
You're right of course. I was just confused by the fact that
L += "aa" # works
L = L + "aa" # gives TypeError
But for consistent types both should work the same.
> I think you'll find it's
> natural once you get used to slice assignment.
I use slice assignment all the time with Numpy arrays, though for list element
appending I prefer append() method.
M
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