On 5/21/2020 5:51 PM, Thierry Parmentelat wrote: >> >> >> Python-arrow.png > > that’s nice ! it’s a real shame though, and a bit of a waste honestly, that > everybody needs to cook their own brew of an editor to get there > and primarily all I’m trying to say is that, one day, this will be a legal > piece of code, so that we can share and enjoy exactly like this > instead of in poor work-it-out-yourself ascii Could you please explain to me how an entry method for → makes for better programmer productivity than what you call "work-it-out-yourself ascii"? I want a specific scenario, like "1 less key press" or whatever, not some kind of "we all use emojis" hand-waving. How would this make me a more productive programmer? Given that -> is never going to disappear from Python anyway, how will this make the code easier to understand?
I believe I speak for a significant majority of professional programmers when I say that eye-candy like this adds no value to the language for me. It gives me no new capabilities, I don't see it making me more productive, and we have syntax that works quite well already. What if I want to use a font in my editor that doesn't support →? Does that mean that I won't be able to edit some random bit of code I download? --Edwin
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