On 3/13/19 1:44 PM, David Teresi wrote:
`->` would not be ambiguous in the proposed cases, but it does already
mean something elsewhere in the language as of 3.5:
def concat(a: str, b: str) -> str:
return a + b
This could potentially cause confusion (as with the % operator being
used for modulo as well as string formatting).
But by that logic, the colon is also ambiguous: the colon
is used to indicate a dictionary entry, as in {a : str}.
Given the radically difference contexts in which the tokens
in question occur, I don't think that this is an issue (then
again, I've never designed a language as widely consumed as
Python).
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