> e.g., "or", and then I wonder "what does short-circuiting have to do > with it?". All reuse of symbols carries baggage.
"or" brings an intuition of the execution order of pattern matching, just like how people already know about "short-circuiting". "or" 's operator precedence also suggests the syntax of OR patterns. As we have "|" as an existing operator, it seems that there might be cases that the precedence of "|" is not consistent with it in an expression. This will mislead users. You said "All reuse of symbols carries baggage", I'd say, All **inconsistent** reuse of symbols carries baggage, but the consistent reuse builds good intuitive sense and shows the good taste of designers. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LVZPTOGDX6WCWZZV6T7QDL2MLDRFOXDA/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/