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

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Date	2013-07-14 11:53 +1000
Subject	Re: [Python-ideas] float('∞')=float('inf')
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.4690.1373766801.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> wrote:
> On 14 July 2013 02:24, Steven D'Aprano <steve@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.

ChrisA

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Re: [Python-ideas] float('∞')=float('inf') Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-14 11:53 +1000

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