You all have been giving pretty great ideas. But this is the one I'm
considering the most:
On 2021-10-12 13:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 11:36:42PM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> You haven't given any reason why unary plus should imply ord().
> I think the question Chris is really asking is why should unary plus
> return ord() rather than any other function or method.
>
> We could make unary plus of a string equal to the upper() method:
>
> +"Hello world" # returns "HELLO WORLD"
>
> or the strip() method:
>
> +" Hello world " # returns "Hello world"
>
> or len():
>
> +"Hello world" # returns 11
>
> or any other function or method we want. What is so special about ord(),
> and what is the connection between ord() and `+` that makes it obvious
> that +"a" should return 97 rather than "A" or 1 or 10 or something else?
>
> It's not enough to just say that unary plus is unused for strings, you
> have to justify why the average programmer will look at unary plus and
> immediately think "ord".
>
> --
> Steve
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