On 10/20/05, Chris Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What an unfortunate name, I'd have called it Uncomparable on some such...
While the current name is unfortunate, and Uncomparable would make the two easier to distinguish, Uncomparable would also be wrong. (If a comparison cannot be performed between two objects, that should be an exception.) This value is only used to indicate that the comparison is not implemented by the specific method chosen; the other operand may well implement the comparison. This is done to allow third-party numeric types to be implement comparison with the built-in types in meaningful ways, instead of the outcome of the comparison being dependent on the order of the operands. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at gmail.com> "Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless." --B.F. Skinner _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users
