On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Dan Sommers <d...@tombstonezero.net> wrote: > So why are we all so comfortable with using "*" as the operator for > multiplication? I'm sure that a new programming language that dared to > use U+00D7 or U+2715 for multiplication would be instantly rejected on > the grounds that it was confusing and incompatible with current practice.
As long as the language doesn't also use "*" for anything so that I can just alias Shift-8 in my editor, no objections here. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
