On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 4:19 PM Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 02:09:03PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Over in typing-sig we're considering a new syntax for callable *types*,
> > which would look like (int, int, str) -> float. A matching syntax for
> > lambda would use a different arrow, e.g. (x, y, z) => x+y+z.
>
> I like arrow operators :-)
>
> But I fear that it will be too easy to misread `=>` as greater than or
> equal to, especially when skimming code.
>
> Assuming that they need to be different arrows, how do you feel about
> `->` for types and annotations, and `-->` for lambdas? Or `->>`?
>

JavaScript uses => for functions, and the confusion with ">=" doesn't
seem to be a major problem with it.

ChrisA
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