Proposed new syntax

Paul Rubin no.email at nospam.invalid
Mon Aug 14 04:37:14 EDT 2017


Steve D'Aprano <steve+python at pearwood.info> writes:
> And very possibly the first language with comprehensions, SETL (from 1969),
> used "forall" ... 

It goes back much further, probably to Principia Mathematica, or (with
different notation) maybe Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-builder_notation

I don't think Python should try to turn it into something different.



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