On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 09:36:20PM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> I counted what I believe to be 10 instances of copy-update in the top
> level of /lib. Do either of you consider this to be enough that any
> addition would be worthwhile.
I think you're referring to Guido and Antoine? But for what it's worth,
I think that's a good indication that there are uses for a merge
operator.
> There are 3 in idlelib that I plan to replace with {**a, **b} and be
> done with the issue. I did not check any other packages.
If a+b already worked for dicts, would you still prefer {**a, **b}?
How about if it were spelled a|b?
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Steven
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