On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 1:40 AM, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > On 25/05/2018 16:27, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 10:58 PM, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: >>> >>> I'm in general not in favour of piling in special symbols into a language >>> just to solve some obscure or rare problem. >>> >>> As I went on to demonstrate, function-like syntax (or even actual >>> functions) >>> could do that job better, by describing what the operation does and not >>> leaving people scratching their heads so much when they encounter that >>> funny-looking operator hidden in 20,000 lines of code. >>> >>> As for '@', if a variable name can come before it /and/ after it, and >>> either >>> or both can be dotted, wouldn't that cause it to be highlighted as an >>> email >>> address in many circumstances? Such as in code posted here. >>> >>> (OK, let's try it and see what happens. My Thunderbird doesn't do >>> previews >>> so I will have to post it first: >>> >>> abc@def >>> a...@def.ghi) >>> >>> I would find that rather annoying. >>> >> >> You're way WAY too late to debate the matrix multiplication operator. > > > /The/ matrix multiplication operator?
No, just *A* matrix multiplication operator, we come in sixpacks. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
