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

[MRAB]

On 2014-04-08 02:45, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> So what? Aren't we allowed to have fun? :-)
>
Next thing you know, he'll be threatening people with The Comfy Chair!
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org
> <mailto:benjamin at python.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Apr 7, 2014, at 18:04, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>      > On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 03:04:18PM -0700, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>      > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014, at 14:58, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>      > > > On Apr 07, 2014, at 05:47 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
>      > > >
>      > > > >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.
>
>     You can't be serious.
>
>      >
>      > 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 :-)
>
>     It's a terrible Easter Egg because it's basically a CPython core
>     developer in-joke.