[Python-ideas] Is there a good reason to use * for multiplication?

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 00:10:32 CEST 2012


On 10/12/12, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> <aside>
> In college we dropped the · and just wrote stuff like:
>
> (x + z)(x - y)
>
> but we can't do that in Python because they are function calls.
> </aside>

I think your mailer must have stripped out unicode character 0x2062,
INVISIBLE TIMES.

Some spelling mistakes are harder to see than others...

-jJ



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