On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 11:08:51PM -0400, David Mertz, Ph.D. wrote: > On the other hand, looking through those examples in a cursory manner made > me think about 75% of the time "why are they doing this silly approach?"
https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/ Describing this as "silly" seems, well, silly. What else are you to do when you have a record (a, b, c, d) and need a record (a, b, x, d)? There are only two approaches: mutate in place or create a new record. Which one you do depends on whether you have a mutable or immutable record, and which of those you have depends on parts of the code you can't see in your cursory glance. -- Steve _______________________________________________ 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/KLRT3YKK6DB3TXJVBELKYJ6QWZY3QCI6/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
