Terry Reedy wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:41:02 -0700, George Sakkis wrote: >> >>> For example I would be much less >>> opposed to len() being defined as, say, |x| if "|...|" was a valid >>> operator. >> >> Arghh! No!!! |x| should be abs(x), not len(x). Just ask mathematicians >> and physicists. > > It should be both, just as + is addition for numbers and concatenation > for sequences. Or we could have just one built-in -- size() instead of > abs() and len(). For non-sequence collections, size() would be better > than len() anyway. > And how are these "non-sequence collections" to be distinguished? And how does size() differ from len() in that case?
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