On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Tim Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
> But passing fold=1 in a > non-fold/gap case is almost certainly a flat-out programmer error, > _except_ that PEP 495 requires never ever complaining about it, and to > the contrary _requires_ it to be done if the user wants to find out > whether their datetime is any way odd. > A programmer who knows about fold does not need as much hand-holding as the one who does not. My customer is the ignorant programmer. > C'mon, admit it - _part_ of it makes you cringe too, if even just a little > ;-) > What makes me cringe is the problem domain where I am required to implement an inverse to a non-monotonic function. And that's on top of the world where clock hands can move backwards.
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