Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon, 17 Mar 2003 11:54:54 +1200 (NZST)

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Guido:

> And I'm still hoping to remove __cmp__; there should be only one
> way to overload comparisons.

I'd rather you kept it and re-defined it to mean
"compare for arbitrary ordering". (Maybe change its
name if there are backwards-compatibility issues.)

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