( 2.31.New operators: 'eq', 'ne', 'last', '..' ) ?

[Gerrit Holl]

Stefan Schwarzer wrote on 948334133:
> Hi Evguenii
> 
> Evguenii Smogailov schrieb:
> > Well, just the same reason as for replacing '||', '&&' with 'or', 'and'.
> 
> I consider it a bad idea, to add synonyms for things that are
> already in the language. So _adding_ "greater" to the language (do you
> really find "greater" or just "gt" more readable as ">"?) is not
> the same as using "or" _instead_ of "||".

It would break code.

eq='aaa'

Wouldn't be possible anymore.

> Perhaps the ".." operator is something to consider (if it isn't
> incompatible with somethings else in the language), but most of
> the times "range" does it's job very well.

Unfortunately, not yet. It's quite hard to get a string which
would be a..k in Perl. Maybe a nice feature for range()?
>>> string.join(map(lambda i: chr(i), range(ord('a'), ord('k'))), '')
'abcdefghij'

Doesn't look very well, does it?

regards,
Gerrit.

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