Message 77398 - Python tracker

Message77398

Author	rhettinger
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, georg.brandl, lemburg, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger
Date	2008-12-09.09:59:17
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Message-id	<1228816758.56.0.395743984917.issue1717@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Moving cmp() somewhere other than builtins is not progress. IMO, it needs to die off and the concept of it needs to disappear completely. Code is better without it. Three-way comparisons are PITA to use -- their only virtue is as an optimization in the few cases where one three-way test is cheaper to compute than two two-way tests. The goal for 3.0 was to have one way to do it and thereby simplify the language. Tucking it away in a module or writing a new decorator defeats the purpose. It simply should die and go away.

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Moving cmp() somewhere other than builtins is not progress.  IMO, it
needs to die off and the concept of it needs to disappear completely. 
Code is better without it.  Three-way comparisons are PITA to use --
their only virtue is as an optimization in the few cases where one
three-way test is cheaper to compute than two two-way tests.

The goal for 3.0 was to have one way to do it and thereby simplify the
language.  Tucking it away in a module or writing a new decorator
defeats the purpose.  It simply should die and go away.

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2008-12-09 09:59:18	rhettinger	set	recipients: + rhettinger, lemburg, brett.cannon, georg.brandl, amaury.forgeotdarc, mark.dickinson, pitrou, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson
2008-12-09 09:59:18	rhettinger	set	messageid: <1228816758.56.0.395743984917.issue1717@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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