Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Wed Sep 21 00:03:30 CEST 2005

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On Tuesday 20 September 2005 17:49, Guido van Rossum wrote:
 > I realize that this was a deliberate feature, and that it exists in
 > 2.4 as well as in 2.4.1 and will in 2.4.2; yet, I'm not sure I *like*

I wasn't paying any attention at the time, so I don't know what was discussed.  
Some discussion here just now leads me to believe that at least two of us 
here (including myself) think iterators shouldn't have length at all: they're 
*not* containers and shouldn't act that way.


  -Fred

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