On 27/06/20 4:25 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Seriously, I genuinely thought that the existing behaviour was the opposite and that `add` unconditionally added the element. "Last seen wins".
The fact that you haven't noticed until now suggests that you've never written any code that depends on the difference.
If I was designing sets, that's probably how I would design it. After all, it's called *add*, not *add if not already there*.
But equally, if it's already there, there's no need to do anything, right? I don't think it's possible to intuit the behaviour from the name "add". I also think that it doesn't matter, and if it does, then a set probably isn't the right data structure for your application. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/WDNSZDNHGYBXFEIFXY3XYHW6CZGPIN2E/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
