As I said before, apparently it is practical in the Java world. On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > But I didn't find a rationale. I'm sure it was PBP though. > > > > > > What's PBP? (A search only turns up a bicycle race. :)) > > > > Practicality Beats Purity, from the zen of Python > > It's practical to have a builtin function silently "lie" about the > length of a sequence? I don't see how that makes anybody's life much > easier. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > > > > > > -- > Cheers, > Benjamin Peterson >
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