[Python-3000] Empty set and empty dictionary (original) (raw)
Neville Grech nevillegrech at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 16 13:12:11 CEST 2007
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This is just some syntax sugar:
Since set literals will change to for example {1,2,3} from set([1,2,3]) and set comprehensions will be specified inside {} I feel that {} will be more naturally associated with sets than dicts (or at least as much).
What if the empty set literal is changed to {} and an empty dict literal changed to {:}. Performing the conversion automatically wouldn't be so complex and also un-ambiguous. The hardest thing to change would be the mentality then.
i.e: {} ::= set([]) {1,2,3} ::= set([1,2,3]) {x for x in y} ::= set(x for x in y) {:} ::= dict()
{a:b, h:j} is a dict since it contains colons.
I hope this isn't a stupid suggestion (I'm new here).
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