On Jan 28, 2008 3:45 PM, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > On Jan 28, 2008 2:46 PM, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Is there a PEP we can refer to for confirmation of > >>said non-craziness? > > > > Have a look at PEP 218. > > That PEP proposes that there be no set literal or comprehension > syntax, and doesn't contain any discussion on whether such > syntax should produce sets or frozensets if it were to exist. > > Maybe there was discussion about that at the time, but it would > be good to have it summarised in a PEP somewhere.
No, but it *does* make 'set' the "default" type, making you work harder to get a frozenset. From this it follows that frozenset was considered the lesser-useful type at the time. And I still feel that way. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
