26 Dec
2019
26 Dec
'19
4:43 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 25, 2019, at 21:09, python-ideas--- via Python-ideas wrote:
On the contrary, on sets you can apply union *and* difference. And since union seems the exact contrary of difference, it's illogical that | is used instead of +.
But sets also support symmetric difference ^, and intersection &. All the bitwise operators mean the same thing that they do for an integer imagined as a set of bit values. The use of - for difference is the odd one out, and it's only this way because for bit notation it's spelled &~ and there's no ~ operator to make an "anti-set".