On 2012-04-20, Rotwang wrote:
> since a method doesn't assign the value it returns to the instance on
> which it is called; what it does to the instance and what it returns are
> two completely different things.
Returning a None-value is pretty useless. Why not returning self, which would be
the resulting list in this case? Returning self would make the
language a little bit more functional, without any drawback.
Then nested calls like
a = [].append('x').append('y').append('z')
would be possible with a containing the resulting list
['x', 'y', 'z'].
That is the way I expect any append to behave.
Bernd
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