Steven D'Aprano added the comment:
Please don't reopen this issue.
If you really want to take it to the Python-Ideas mailing list, you can:
https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/
or to Discuss:
https://discuss.python.org/c/ideas/6
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Devin Harper <345t...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Couldn't find that mailing list sorry. There's only 1 for developers like you.
Removing tuples would be backwards compatible. My plan would automatically
convert tuples to lists. Just keep all the list code besides parenthetical
symbols.
Steven D'Aprano added the comment:
Dennis beat me to it in saying that tuples cannot be replaced by lists.
But I also wanted to say that it is *not true* that removing bracket symbols
would increase readability. Natural language allows parenthetical phrases --
which can be bracketed using
Dennis Sweeney added the comment:
"Removing tuples" would be highly backwards-incompatible, as millions of
programs rely on tuples, and we can't break them for no reason.
> Lists have everything tuples have and more.
Not true: tuples are hashable, so they can be used as keys in dicts and
New submission from Devin Harper <345t...@gmail.com>:
Parenthetical symbols like ()[]{} are unneeded if you just remove the
complaining in the compiler/interpreter/programming language. It will increase
readability and natural language programming( NLP). Just treat the symbols as
strings and
