On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:22:46 +0000, Antoon Pardon wrote: >> Redundancy is not something to be valued for its own sake. It is only >> valuable when it actually gains you something. > > In the same way it is not something to be eliminated for its own > sake.
On the contrary, redundancy implies more work somewhere: e.g. more work for the parser, more effort needed by the python-dev crew, bigger binaries, larger code bases, more complex test suites, slower development, longer downloads. Whatever the nature of the redundant thing, there will be a cost to it. If that cost isn't outweighed by some advantage it should be eliminated merely because it is redundant and therefore a cost we could do without. I suppose, theoretically, if you could find some cost-free redundancy, something that just happened for free, we would have no reason to care whether it existed or not. But since cost-free redundancies don't exist, or at least are very rare, we should prefer to remove redundancies UNLESS they offer some advantage. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
