On Sunday, May 24, 2020, at 18:58 -0400, Chris Angelico wrote:
> <data sort | ... I've been known to do that. > Maybe it's function call syntax that is the weird one. It might be > familiar to us, but maybe it's the one that's actually causing the > weirdness. Suppose we wrote the function last: > > (data)sort > > Now it's basically become a pipeline. And yet this syntax looks so > utterly bizarre that none of us would accept it... Get rid of the parentheses. We'll call it "postfix notation." Ever written any postscript code? Or forth? ;-) _______________________________________________ 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/DLXONAAC4AQVXSN7TNQ6NR7UQ533GTX5/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
