[Python-Dev] hello, new dict addition for new eve ?

2011-12-30 Thread julien tayon
Hello, Sorry to annoy the very busy core devs :) out of the blue I quite noticed people were 1) wanting to have a new dict for Xmas 2) strongly resenting dict addition. Even though I am not a good developper, I have come to a definition of addition that would follow algebraic rules, and not

Re: [Python-Dev] hello, new dict addition for new eve ?

2011-12-30 Thread Guido van Rossum
Hi Julien, Don't despair! I have tried to get people to warm up to dict addition too -- in fact it was my counter-proposal at the time when we were considering adding sets to the language. I will look at your proposal, but I have a point of order first: this should be discussed on python-ideas,