In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nicholas
Parsons wrote:
> Just from my computer science background when I see pop(), I think of a
> stack data structure.
Then question your presumptions. There are also many people thinking
`list` must be something with nodes and pointers when they see the
interface and usage of Python lists.
> But then again, there are other examples of ambiguity in the python
> language such as allowing operators like '+' to be overloaded. Why not
> just have a "add()" method like Java?
Why does this remove ambiguity? I even would expect different behaviour
from both. I expect the ``+`` operator to return either an immutable or
entirely new object, while `add()` can be something on containers that
mutates the object.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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