On Tuesday 06 October 2009 02:40:46 pm Paul Rubin wrote: > > The problem is that if you allow to use the cmp, lot of programmers > > will use it straight away, not even bothering to know what that > > strange 'key' argument may be useful for. And they miss the how much > > handy 'key' is. > > Given how often we hear "consenting adults" as justification for any > number of gaps in Python error checking, the argument above is > singularly unpersuasive.
Well, as long as you consider them "gaps" in need of a "justification", of course that argument (and the one about the "gaps" themselves) will of course seem singularly unpersuasive. But if you see them as a "feature" (that may sometimes, albeit rarely, missfire), then you would have no problem with /either/ argument. -- Luis Zarrabeitia (aka Kyrie) Fac. de Matemática y Computación, UH. http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
