Re: [Python-ideas] float('∞')=float('inf')

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Joshua Landau <joshua at landau.ws> wrote:
>> On 14 July 2013 02:24, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>>> and on-going costs:
>>>
>>> - that's one more thing for every user to learn;
>>
>> Doesn't apply here.
>
> Yes, it does; what happens to someone who reads someone else's Python
> code? To write code, you need to understand one way of spelling
> something. To read code, you need to understand _every_ way of
> spelling that thing. That may not be a particularly great cost in this
> case, but it is a cost.

Doh, I forgot which channel this was on again :( It feels like a
python-list thread.

ChrisA