April 14, 2016
8:55 p.m.
On 4/14/2016 1:23 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
however cogent arguments for/against the status quo (or for relinquishing the rule altogether) are welcome.
Outside of Python, binary operators are (in the examples I can think of) more often more strongly associated with the second argument than the first, even to the point of switching the order of 2nd arg and operator. English: Start with A, add B, subtract C, and assign the result to D. Assembly: load A add B sub C stor D Calculator tape (with literals, not symbols) A B + C - D = I suggest relinquishing the rule, except maybe to suggest consistency within an expression, if not the whole file. -- Terry Jan Reedy