"Larry Bates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Once it is in everyone is hesitant to take it out for fear of breaking someone's code that uses it (no matter how obscure). Putting in new methods should be difficult and require lots of review for that reason and so we don't have language bloat.
Larry Bates
Language bloat is subjective of course, but I fail to see why putting in dict.reset and dict.add should be harder than, say, str.swapcase or str.capitalize.
Those were functions in the string module for, well much longer than I can remember. When string methods were innovated, they became methods along with the rest of the string module functions.
Adding functions was easier back then; the standard library was rather smaller. There is no reason that the criteria for inclusion now must be the same as then and plenty of good reasons for them to be more restrictive now.
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