Jan. 16, 2022
10:33 p.m.
On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 7:05 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
I never suggested adding this "for consistency".
Then what ARE you suggesting it for? As far as I can tell, it would be a handy shorthand. And you had suggested it could result in more efficient bytecode, but I think someone else thought that wasn't the case. It could lead to some optimization -- literals being treated as contents, yes? But what does that matter? are they heavenly used in any common code? -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython