On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Pierre Quentel <pierre.quen...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm afraid I am going to disagree. The document is a tree structure, and > today Python doesn't have a syntax for easily manipulating trees. To add a > child to a node, using an operator instead of a function call saves a lot of > typing ; <= looks like a left arrow, which is a visual indication of the > meaning "receive as child". |= doesn't have this arrow shape
This is the reasoning that gave us the C++ stdio system, where: cout << "Hello, world!\n"; is the way to make console output. Quite frankly, I don't like it; when I write C++ code, I use printf same as in C. I'd much rather work with methods than with operators that try to look like the flowing of data, but actually have a quite different meaning. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
