Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I prefer factorial as a method (like Ruby and Smalltalk). Given the usual notation (n!) or pronounciation (n factorial), it is natural to write this as: n.factorial().
Compared to numbits() and isqrt(), a factorial() method is more basic in that it is self explanatory and everyone knows what it means by the time they are in middle school. FWIW, if separate RFEs were opened for numbits() and isqrt(), I would support their being int methods too. Their implementations are helped by access to the underlying representation, and a case could be made that these no argument calls are just properties of the number (just like the sign bit). __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2138> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
