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

[Guido van Rossum]

So what? Aren't we allowed to have fun? :-)


On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>wrote:

> 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.
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