On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
Chris Angelico writes:
A variant Python would be welcome to translate all the operators and keywords into single-character tokens, using Unicode symbols for NOT EQUAL TO and so on - including using U+03BB in place of 'lambda'.
Probably it would not be "welcome", except in the usual sense that "Python is open source, you can do what you want".
... programmers communicating to other programmers. ...
This is not to say that individuals who want a personalized[1] language are wrong, just that it would have a net negative impact on communication in teams.
A fair point. But Python has a strong mathematical side (look how big the numpy/scipy/matplotlib communities are), and we've already seen how strongly they prefer "a @ b" to "a.matmul(b)". If there's support for a language variant that uses more and shorter symbols, that would be where I'd expect to find it. ChrisA not a mathematician, although I play one on the internet sometimes