David Abrahams dave at boost-consulting.com
Fri Sep 26 14:51:05 EDT 2003

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Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>    ...
>> Also, the idea of denying tuples the ability to reverse iterate seems
>> arbitrary and capricious.
>
> Sure, but so is denying them, e.g., non-mutating methods such as
> .index() and .count().

Not IMO. Immutability is a very useful trait.

> At least we're _consistently_ arbitrary and capricious!-)

Not in this case.

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Dave Abrahams
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