Guido van Rossum wrote: >> __hash__() isn't always O(1), so in my world it wouldn't be a >> property. > > I like this best of all the arguments presented so far, and consider > the case closed. > > (The weakness of the argument "but hash() can take a long time to > compute" is that a good hash function is supposed to be fast. But this > doesn't mean it can't have an O(N) component somewhere, e.g. for > tuples.)
That seems like a good determinant to me. Perhaps it should be added to PEP err ... 3000? Doesn't quite seem to fit - maybe needs a new section. Tim Delaney _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
