On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 12:04 AM, Mikhail V <mikhailwas@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 2:15 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Mikhail V wrote:
My feeling is that inserting is not a frequent enough operation to warrant having its own operator, especially not when there is already a syntax that does the same thing.
Depends on what you count as 'insert' - append is one case of insert ;) (logically seen)
Sorry for repeating myself, the idea was that the default meaning is append(), i.e. normal operator usage on list:
L1 = L2 ^ item - would be same as L1 = L2.append(item)
Not sure exactly what your intention here is, because list.append mutates the list and returns None. Does "L2 ^ item" mutate L2 in place, or does it construct a new list? If it mutates in place, does it return the same list? Or if doesn't, how is it different from "L2 + [item]", which is a much more logical spelling of list addition? ChrisA