On 05/05/2020 13:53, Henk-Jaap Wagenaar wrote:
Brandt's example with ast in the stdlib I think is a pretty good example of
this.
On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 13:27, Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote:
On 05/05/2020 13:12, Henk-Jaap Wagenaar wrote:
A function that is a "safer" version in some "edge case" (not extra
functionality but better error handling basically) but that does
otherwise
work as expected is not something one will search for automatically. This
is zip versus zip-with-strict-true.
I'm sorry, I don't buy it. This isn't an edge case, it's all about
whether you care about what your input is. In that sense, it's exactly
like the relationship between zip and zip_longest.
Interesting, because I'd call it a counterexample to your point. The
bug's authors should have cared about their input, but didn't.
--
Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
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