On 27 Nov 2005 19:49:26 -0800, Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote: >Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Use cases are the primary tool for communicating those practical >> needs. If you can't think of a single use case, what's the point of >> implementing something? Or rather, why should someone else implement >> it if you don't know how you would use it? > >I can't think of a single use case for the addition (+) operator >working where either of the operands happens to be the number >0x15f1ef02d9f0c2297e37d44236d8e8ddde4a34c96a8200561de00492cb94b82 (a >random number I just got out of /dev/urandom). I've never heard of >any application using that number, and the chances of it happening by >coincidence are impossibly low. But if Python were coded in a way >that made the interpreter crash on seeing that number, I'd call that >a bug needing fixing.
If you seriously believe what you just wrote, you have failed to understand the phrase "use case" (and possibly a lot of other things related to programming ;) However (fortunately for you) I suspect you don't. If you really did, you may want to pick up one of those platitude-filled XP books and give it a careful read. You may find there's more there than you were previously aware. Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
