On 05/05/2020 21:03, Christopher Barker wrote:
"If its builtin people will be more likely to use it, so we need to make

it builtin."

This argument will apply to **literally** every function and class in
the standard library.

But we are not talking adding a new builtin.

Well, actually we are. As Steven pointed out further down the post, adding a flag to a function that is pretty much always going to be set at compile time is equivalent to (and IMHO would be better expressed as) a new function.

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
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