On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 03:45:03PM -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 09:34 AM 3/4/2006 -0800, Anna Ravenscroft wrote:
> >I think this is a really good point. next() is supposed to get used, by
> >coders, in regular code - so it shouldn't be __next__. I can understand
> >the desire for both forms, although that seems it would clutter things up
> >unnecessarily - particularly if the two do the same thing.
>
> By this argument, we should be using ob.len() instead of len(ob), and
> ob.iter() instead of iter(ob).
Yes, I think it'd be more consistent and more object-oriented. After all
we've switched from string.split(x, y) to x.split(y)...
Oleg.
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Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
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