On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:50:53 -0700, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael Spencer wrote:
We could use __add__, instead for combining namespaces
I don't think this is a good idea. For the same reasons that dicts don't have an __add__ (how should attributes with different values be combined?), I don't think Bunch/Namespace should have an __add__.
For entirely unrelated reasons I did it for a bunch-like class of mine, and called it 'merge'. For this particular application it was a better name than update and append, but that's IMHO.
Did 'merge' have the same semantics as the 'update' being discussed? That is, did it modify the first 'bunch'? Or did it create a new 'bunch'? To me, 'merge' sounds more like the second...
Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
