July 30, 2014
4:37 a.m.
On 30.07.2014 00:46, Greg Ewing wrote:
Jonas Wielicki wrote:
FWIW, one could use an operator which inherently shows a direction: << and >>, for both directions respectively.
A = B >> C lets B take precedence, and A = B << C lets C take precedence.
While it succeeds in indicating a direction, it fails to suggest any kind of addition or union.
As already noted elsewhere (to continue playing devils advocate), its not an addition or union anyways. It’s not a union because it is lossy and not commutative it’s not something I’d call addition either. While one can certainly see it as shifting the elements from dict A over dict B. regards, jwi