On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:09 AM Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2020, at 12:45, Cade Brown wrote: > > I am positing that Python should contain a constant (similar to True, > > False, None), called Infinity. > > What if we created a new syntax [and used it for the repr] that is not > currently a valid identifier? > > something like "1.INF" > if we were starting from scratch, that would be a good idea, but as the repr has been consistent for quite some timem I dont think we want to change it. And we do want teh names to match the repr And I'd maybe go with .INF. :-) Another point is that these are not going to be singletons, like True, False and None -- they are just floats that happen to have particular values. -CHB > _______________________________________________ > 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/BN5ZRN5IWERVBZFUSPBD4RJKQ7FGO5HB/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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