Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Ben Finney via Python-list > <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > I think “reject unless absolutely needed” is an unreasonably high > > bar, which would disqualify most Python language features. So I > > don't know why you expect this to be so especially strongly argued. > > True, I exaggerated a bit. But do you think that, had __ne__ not > existed for years, its addition could be justified?
I'm not the one making pronouncements on what would or would not be allowed, in a counterfactual universe where things had been different for so many years. So, because I don't need to speculate about that, I won't :-) -- \ “Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual | `\ profit without individual responsibility.” —Ambrose Bierce, | _o__) _The Devil's Dictionary_, 1906 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
