On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:32:21 +0100, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
<ciprian.crac...@gmail.com> wrote:
Should I update the
__eq__ method (for str class) and break almost everything? Can I write
now a == b?
Should you instead, perhaps, write a case-insensitive string class, since
seems to be what your data is asking for?
I like object oriented programming, but most of the times we are
just throwing together code and data even when the data has no
behavior and the code is in fact just one possible processing
algorithm. Like in the case you are mentioning, if I tie the
comparison code to the actual data structure, then I'll never be able
to reuse it... But if I leave the code as a standalone function, and
just use the data (or any data that resembles the original structure)
then maybe I'll be able to reuse it...
I'd say the reverse, personally. A lot of what you've demonstrated is
varying algorithms, which are rarely going to reuse standalone code.
They still need to deal with case-insensitive strings, though.
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