On 18/03/2010 18:44, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
[snip...]
Seems like it would be better to raise an exception, and in the
documentation for the exception point out that turning off the exception
(if it should be decided that that should be possible, which could be
good for compatibility), would regress to the current behavior, which
doesn't sort numerically, but by type.
Regressing to an useless behaviour sounds like a deliberate annoyance. I don't
think this proposal should be implemented.
I agree, comparisons here have completely defined semantics - it sounds
crazy not to allow it. (The argument 'because some programmers might do
it without realising' doesn't hold much water with me.)
Michael
Regards
Antoine.
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