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

[Victor Stinner]

2014-04-08 3:04 GMT+02:00 Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>:
>> > >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.
>
> 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 :-)

I'm also against the removal of jokes! Removing the antigravity module
would break the backward compatibility! from __futures__ import
braces!

Ten years ago, we asked me to add the "IPv6" feature in a firewall. I
started to implement the RFC 1924 to have a full support. In the C
language, handling the base 85 is not simple because you need
arithmetic operations on large integers (128 bits).
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1924

3 days later, when my code was working, I saw the date of the RFC... I
was young and naive :-)

Victor