On Mon, 4 Jul 2016 07:28 am, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Monday, July 4, 2016 at 6:39:45 AM UTC+12, John Ladasky wrote: >> Here's another worm for the can. Would you rather read this... >> >> d = sqrt(x**2 + y**2) >> >> ...or this? >> >> d = √(x² + y²) > > Neither. I would rather see > > d = math.hypot(x, y) > > Much simpler, don’t you think?
Only if you think of x and y as the sides of a triangle, and remember that "hypot" is a Unix-like abbreviation for hypotenuse (rather than, say, "hypothesis". And it doesn't help you one bit when it comes to: a = √(4x²y - 3xy² + 2xy - 1) Personally, I'm not convinced about using the very limited number of superscript code points to represent exponentiation. Using √ as an unary operator looks cute, but I don't know that it adds enough to the language to justify the addition. -- Steven “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
