• it's a method on an object, which makes my brain happy. I never managed to get my brain wrapped around the old style syntax, it's inconsistent with the rest of the python syntax.
uhh... so you'd prefer to do something like `1.add(2)` ???
uhh... so you'd prefer to do something like `1.add(2)` ???
Another example for me, in Python, is:
print >> sys.stderr, 'foo'
print ('foo', file=sys.stderr) from __future__ import print_function
If we carry on this discussion lispers are going to tell us we're the ones with the funny syntax!