On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:51:11 -0700 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > Of course, everything comes at a price. You have to learn the operators, > and you have to learn their properties when applied to different object > types.
That's not the only price, though. If "+" is added to dicts, then we're overloading an already heavily used operator. It makes reading code more difficult. In mathematics, this is not a problem as the "types" of the "variables" are explicitly given. Not in (usual) Python. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
