On 04/04/06 Gareth McCaughan said: > > It's a minor thing, but it'd be nice to make a method alias for append() on > > mutable sequences called push(), to go with pop(). > > That would confuse anyone used to Lisp, where after > > (defvar foo (list 1 2 3 4)) > (puch 99 foo) > > the value of FOO is (99 1 2 3 4) rather than (1 2 3 4 99). > I take no stand on how much not confusing Lispers matters > to Python 3k.
It would ease transition from Perl, and be consistent in the method naming. If one is going to use a method obviously taken from the stack ADT, having a method normally called push() would be less confusing. I know that I found it so, having both used stacks and Perl. I can make a list subclass obviously, but I've always found append() and pop() one of those arrangements that just makes new Python programmers say, huh? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein
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