[Python-ideas] + operator on generators

[Joshua Morton]

Just another syntactical suggestion: the binary ++ operator is used as
concat in various contexts in various languages, and is probably less
likely to confuse people as being either a logical or binary &.

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 6:53 AM Stephan Houben <stephanh42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Its the applications where it *is* important that
> > we should be looking at.
>
> Um, yes, but given our relative positions in this debate,
> the onus is not really on *me* to demonstrate such an application, right?
> That would just confuse everbody ;-)
>
> (FWIW, Sagemath is not mostly "numerical processing", it is mostly
> *symbolic* calculations and involves a lot of complex algorithms and
> datastructures, including sequences.)
>
> Stephan
>
> 2017-06-27 13:48 GMT+02:00 Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>:
> > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 01:32:05PM +0200, Stephan Houben wrote:
> >> Hi Steven,
> >>
> >> To put this into perspective, I did some greps on Sagemath,
> >> being the largest Python project I have installed on this machine
> >> (1955 .py files).
> >
> > And one which is especially focused on numerical processing, not
> > really the sort of thing that does a much iterator chaining. That's
> > hardly a fair test -- we know there are applications where chaining is
> > not important at all. Its the applications where it *is* important that
> > we should be looking at.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Steve
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