[Python-Dev] Pre-PEP: Allow Empty Subscript List Without Parentheses (original) (raw)

Noam Raphael noamraph at gmail.com
Fri Jun 16 16:10:00 CEST 2006

2006/6/16, Gareth McCaughan <gmccaughan at synaptics-uk.com>:

None of the above is intended to constitute argument for or against Noam's proposed change to Python. Python isn't primarily a language for mathematicians, and so much the better for Python. Thanks for your explanation of mathematical zero dimensional array! I just wanted to say that I really got to this just from trying to make a computer program as simple as possible - from what I know now, with empty subscript lists not allowed, my library will have more lines of code, will have more details of interface, and will require longer code to operate it. I'm not saying that not changing it will be terrible - I'm just saying that if changing something makes other things simpler AND goes along with mathematical intuition, it might be the right thing to do...

Noam

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