[Python-ideas] Revisiting dedicated overloadable boolean operators

[David Mertz]

On Sat, Aug 4, 2018, 1:24 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> If you think the uproar over PEP 572 was vicious, imagine what would
> happen if we introduced new operators like ∉ ∥ ∢ ∽ ⊎ etc instead.
>
> - keyboard support for entering the bulk of Unicode characters is
>   non-existent or poor;
>
> - without keyboard support, editor support for entering Unicode
>   characters is as best clunky, requiring the memorization of
>   obscure names, hex codes, or a GUI palette;
>

This is the essential problem. I write this as someone who has the vim
conceal plugin configured to change my Python code into something with many
of those funny characters Steven users as examples.

But while I like looking at those, although recognizing it's quirky,
entering any of them is enormously cumbersome. I did it once to configure
my substitution macros (which are purely visual... What I type in is just
ASCII and that's what is saved in soak, but it appears on screen with some
replacements).

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