[Python-Dev] PEP 465: A dedicated infix operator for matrix multiplication

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014, at 18:04, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 03:04:18PM -0700, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014, at 14:58, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> > > On Apr 07, 2014, at 05:47 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> > > 
> > > >Python used to have an alias <> for != and I for one miss <> in 3.x.  I
> > > >don't think TOOWTDI should be the last word in this debate.
> > > 
> > > PEP 401 to the rescue:
> > 
> > It occurs to me that since that Aprils' Fools joke is many years old
> > now, we should remove it.
> 
> -1 on removal.

You can't be serious.

> 
> It makes a nice Easter Egg, especially now that "import this" has become 
> less of an Easter Egg and more of a standard Python module :-)

It's a terrible Easter Egg because it's basically a CPython core
developer in-joke.