[Python-ideas] Support multiplication for sets

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Oct 7 23:53:24 CEST 2011


Mike Meyer wrote:
> But unless there's another common meaning for multiplying sets, 

While there might not be another common meaning for multiplying
sets, it's not necessarily obvious that '*' applied to sets in a
programming language means 'multiplication'.

For example, Pascal uses '+' and '*' for set union and intersection,
IIRC.

-- 
Greg



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