Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Cameron Simpson <cs <at> zip.com.au> writes: >> Personally, I'm for the iteration spec in a lot of ways. >> >> Firstly, a .get()/.pick() that always returns the same element feels >> horrible. Is there anyone here who _likes_ it? > > I do. Since the caller is asking for an arbitrary element, returning the same > element is legitimate. It's funny how people seem to have a problem with the > word "arbitrary" :)
Agreed. Arbitrary is arbitrary - for a stateless method that returns an arbitrary result, return the same value every time is fine. > And I'm -1 on any implicit iteration attaching some state to the object. If > you > want to iterate, there's already an obvious way to it. Also agreed. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
