On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 3:02 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Mikhail V <mikhailwas@gmail.com> wrote:
Now I have slightly different idea. How is about special-casing of this as a shortcut for append:
L[] = item
Namely just use the fact that empty slice is SyntaxError now.
I understand this is totally different approach than operator overloading and maybe hard to implement, but I feel like it looks really appealing. And it is quite intuitive imo. For me the syntax reads like: "add new empty element and this element will be "item".
No?
Yes, if this were PHP.
Is it like that in PHP?
I still haven't seen any compelling argument against the append method. -1 on introducing a new way to spell append.
By me - there is just nothing against append() method. But I see from various posts in the web and SO - people just want to spell it compact, and keep the 'item' part clean of brackets. And that kind of makes sense.
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