
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 14:57, Brandt Bucher <brandtbucher@gmail.com> wrote:
Paul Moore wrote:
All of the above is just my subjective opinion. Objective information is likely to only be available by someone looking at a body of real world code and demonstrating what difference the proposed operator would make to it (maybe someone did that already - I've not been following this thread closely).
Basically the whole bottom quarter of the PEP!
Thanks! I told you I hadn't been following closely ;-) Of those I find very few look better with the + operator. There are about 20 examples, and at most I'd say 4 were an improvement. A couple were arguable, but most were in my view worse when rewritten. And I worry that some of the ones that were an improvement might be confusing if I hadn't just been reading about the + operator for dictionaries (or to put it another way, they make a virtue of conciseness, which is less of a virtue in code that you're not as familiar with). Again, I note this is purely subjective opinion. Paul