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0 points_ZeD_11y ago0 comments

• it's a method on an object, which makes my brain happy. I never managed to get my brain wrapped around the old style syntax, it's inconsistent with the rest of the python syntax.

uhh... so you'd prefer to do something like `1.add(2)` ???

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jnpatel11y ago· 1 in thread

While arithmetic syntactic sugar is useful since it's much clearer, I agree that I'd often prefer a function call to some unintuitive symbol syntax.

Another example for me, in Python, is:

    print >> sys.stderr, 'foo'

vs.

    print ('foo', file=sys.stderr)

dorfsmay11y ago

Ah yes, I've been doing

    from __future__ import print_function

pretty much since it has been available. flush=True, end='' etc.... much more intuitive.

dorfsmay11y ago

I'd be happy with `int().add(1, 2)`, it'd be more consistent.

If we carry on this discussion lispers are going to tell us we're the ones with the funny syntax!

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