Antoon Pardon, 25.03.2011 10:21:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:49:53PM +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:47:05 +0100, Antoon Pardon wrote:
However since that seems to be a problem for you I will be more
detailed. The original poster didn't ask for cases in which cmp was
necessary, he asked for cases in which not using cmp was cumbersome.
I'm the original poster, and that's not what I said. I said:
"If anyone has any use-cases for sorting with a comparison function that
either can't be written using a key function, or that perform really
badly when done so, this would be a good time to speak up."
You'll notice that I said nothing about whether writing the code was easy
or cumbersome, and nothing about readability.
Well fine. I should have realised the question was just a pretense and that
there really never was any intention to consider the reactions, because
the answer is already fixed.
I don't think it is. It's just not as simple as "see, I have an artificial
use case here, so you *must* put the feature back in the language".
Stefan
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