Well... also, the meaning in R is quite a bit different from any of the meanings suggested by Wolfram. In fact, although the most common use in R is "depends on", it's technically just a generic delayed evaluation without any inherent semantics at all. Or, that is to say, tilde is just a certain kind of quotation, and we already have quotation in Python.
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 1:28 PM <jdve...@gmail.com> wrote: > Aaron Hall wrote: > > The context for this is statistics , so I'll quote Wolfram on tilde in > the context of > > statistics: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tilde.html > > "In statistics, the tilde is frequently used to mean "has the > distribution (of)," for > > instance, X∼N(0,1) means "the stochastic (random) variable X has the > distribution N(0,1) > > (the standard normal distribution). If X and Y are stochastic variables > then X∼Y means "X > > has the same distribution as Y." > > I think that you have refuted your own idea. You have argued that ~ is > rightful statistical operator. But Python is not an statistical language. > Python is a general purpose programming language while R is a statistical > one. They have different domains so what is useful and right in R it is not > necessary useful and right in Python. I cannot see a case for a statistical > operator in Python. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/IZMGSVIEHWDASTLUDP5AXLQKMZ4BPDGR/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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