On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:57 AM Stephen J. Turnbull turnbull.stephen.fw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp wrote:
Maybe you'll persuade enough committers without examples. Maybe the problem will be solved en passant if the "issubclass needs an operator" thread succeeds (I've already suggested to Yanghao offlist that Guido's suggested spelling of "<:" seems usable for "update", even though in that thread it's a comparison operator). But both would require a lot of luck IMO.
I must have overlooked it ... <: seems good to me. I do agree with you this needs more materialized evidence, I am working on it, in a few areas more than just DSL/HDL.
For now I have abandoned my local change to cpython and settled with list assignment signal[:] = thing. This in most case does not conflict with numeric operations, nor list operations. (HDL signals are both numbers and a list of individual signals). And it aligns with what it means with the general python list.
Though, I am really looking forward to the success of <: operator as well ;-)