<div dir="ltr">Where on earth is the degree sign on my keyboard? (Don't answer. It's a rhetorical question.)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Robert Kern <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert.kern@gmail.com" target="_blank">robert.kern@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On 2014-03-14 13:20, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:<br>
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On 14.03.2014 12:25, Robert Kern wrote:<br>
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On 2014-03-14 10:16, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:<br>
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I have some questions:<br>
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1. Since in math, the operator is usually spelt "·" (the center dot,<br>
or "." but that's already reserved for methods and attributes in<br>
Python), why not try to use that instead of "@" (which in Python<br>
already identifies decorators) ?<br>
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I think the current feeling of the Python core team is against including non-ASCII characters in the<br>
language's keywords or operators. Even if that were not so, I would still recommend against it<br>
because it would be quite difficult to type. I don't know off-hand the key combination to do it on<br>
my native system, and it would change from system to system.<br>
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That's a fair argument. How about using the degree symbol instead: "°" ?<br>
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(A ° B).T == B.T ° A.T<br>
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Your point is taken, though. I do find these smaller symbols more readable and similar to standard mathematical notation than an @ sign, which is as big or bigger than most uppercase characters. Unfortunately, ASCII leaves us few single-character options.<div class="im HOEnZb">
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-- <br>
Robert Kern<br>
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"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma<br>
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had<br>
an underlying truth."<br>
-- Umberto Eco<br>
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