On Mar 4, 2007, at 4:38 AM, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nicholas > Parsons wrote: > >> Just from my computer science background when I see pop(), I think >> of a >> stack data structure. > > Then question your presumptions. There are also many people thinking > `list` must be something with nodes and pointers when they see the > interface and usage of Python lists.
Good point :). > >> But then again, there are other examples of ambiguity in the python >> language such as allowing operators like '+' to be overloaded. >> Why not >> just have a "add()" method like Java? > > Why does this remove ambiguity? I even would expect different > behaviour > from both. I expect the ``+`` operator to return either an > immutable or > entirely new object, while `add()` can be something on containers that > mutates the object. This is true. As long as the language (be it Java, Python, X) itself remains consistent over time, then this should be fine. > > Ciao, > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
