Oct. 15, 2012
5:02 a.m.
Ram Rachum writes:
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Blake Hyde <syrion@gmail.com> wrote:
Is anything gained from this addition?
To give a practical answer, I could say that for newbies it's one small confusion that could removed from the language.
Get Microsoft to agree and implement it in Excel and you might have a point. But as long as Excel uses * for multiplication, I don't think anybody who uses computers is going to have trouble learning this. Anyway, Python believes in TOOWTDI ("the one old way to do it").[1] Footnotes: [1] With apologies to Tim Peters.