On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I'm writing a generic average function, I probably don't know whether > it will ever be used to average complex numbers.
This keeps coming up in these discussions. How often do you really write a function that generic? And if you do, isn't it doing something so simple that it's then the caller's responsibility (not the function's, and not the language's) to ensure that it gets the right result? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
