On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 11:27 PM Jeremiah Vivian
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > -1. It's unnecessary optimization for an uncommon case, abuse of syntax
> Good point. But what else can the unary positive do? I'm just trying to add a
> use for it.
> > illogical - why should +"a" be the integer 97?
> Because `ord("a")` is `97`. Have you read the last question at the end of the
> post?
And eval("0xa") is 10. Why shouldn't +"a" be 10 instead?
You haven't given any reason why unary plus should imply ord().
ChrisA
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