On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > My point was this: All mutate methods should mutate "in-place", if the > programmer wishes to create a mutated copy of the object, then the programmer > should /explicitly/ create a copy of the object and then apply the correct > mutator method to the copy.
I agree. And we can go further and declare that there is only one data type, the simple integer; you have an infinite number of them, and all you can do is mutate them in place. You don't need variable names either; just have one single array that represents your whole namespace, and work with positions in that array. And don't bother with actual positions, even - with a single pointer, you could manage everything. Forget this silly mess of data types, methods, global functions, and so on. Let's simplify things massively! Ook. Ook! ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
