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It will be interesting to see how this PEP is handled by the community with Guido off on a permanent vacation, and the mood among Python core devs seemingly "no
by webmaven 8y ago
It will be interesting to see how this PEP is handled by the community with Guido off on a permanent vacation, and the mood among Python core devs seemingly "no major changes to syntax for the next little while" .
Personally, some of the examples using the new operators are in fact easier to read, but others border on illegibility, and I don't think the tradeoff is wise.
Then again, I felt the same way about Python's decorator syntax (ie. @) when it was proposed, and I still find it jarring.
- toyg 8y ago> It will be interesting to see how this PEP is handled by the community It was created three years ago, and it's still just a draft. Hopefully it won't go anywhere, with or without Guido around. EDIT: Raymond Hettinger is on the ball as always: "This PEP also shares some traits with PEP 572 in that it solves a somewhat minor problem with new syntax and grammar changes that affect the look and feel of the language in a way that at least some of us (me for example) find to be repulsive. This PEP is one step further away from Python reading like executable pseudo-code. That trait is currently a major draw to the language and I don't think it should get tossed away just to mitigate a minor irritant"
- webmaven 8y agoAnd yet, PEP 572 was recently accepted...