10 Jun
2020
10 Jun
'20
5:59 a.m.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 1:15 PM Stephen J. Turnbull
Executive summary:
Dicts are unordered, so we can distinguish dict from set by the first item (no new notation), and after that default identifiers to (name : in-scope value) items. Also some notational bikeshedding.
Be careful with this assumption. Python's dictionaries DO retain order, even if you can't easily talk about "the fifth element" [1], so anything that imposes requirements on the entry listed syntactically first may have consequences. ChrisA [1] which, as we all know, is Boron