Raymond Hettinger <rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
ISTM these examples show how little value would come from fattening-up the dict API. The examples use the copy/update pattern which is clear, explicit, and extendable to n-ary cases without incurring O(n**2) behavior. Tranforming them to a f=d+e pattern saves a few characters; doesn't add any speed; makes it less clear that we're operating on dictionaries; and does not extend well to the n-ary case (f=a+b+c+d+e which copies a's elements five times, b's four times, etc.) No new functionality gets added -- all this is is a piece of syntactic sugar that obscures what is going-on under the hood. The dict API is one of the most fundamental in the language; it needs to be kept as clean and hazard-free as possible. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6410> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
