On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 4:08:38 PM UTC+5:30, Antoon Pardon wrote: > So? We do use + -, so why shouldn't we use × for multiplication. Would > such a use already indicate I should use a mathematical front-end?
> When a programming language is borrowing concepts from mathematics, > I see no reason not to borrow the symbols used too. Well... Matters of taste are personal, touchy-feely things and not easily explainable. Some of mine: * for multiply does not bother me; ** for power for some reason does. Even though the only standard math notation is non-linear and is off-limits 'and' bothers me slightly (maybe because I was brought up on Pascal?) '&&' less (and then C) ∧ is of course best (I am a Dijkstra fan) [But then Dijkstra would probably roll over and over in his grave at short-circuit 'and'. Non-commutative?!?! Blasphemy!] ÷ for some reason seems inappropriate (some vague recollection that its an only English; Europeans dont use it??) And if we had hyphen '‐' distinguished from minus '-' then we could have lispish names like call‐with‐current‐continuation properly spelt. And then generations of programmers will thank us for increasing their debugging overtime!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
