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tuples, index method, Python's design

Carsten Haese carsten at uniqsys.com
Sun Apr 8 15:40:27 EDT 2007 
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 07:51 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Carsten Haese <carsten at uniqsys.com> writes:
> > > Maybe we can add such methods to the PyPy tuples for some time, to
> > > experimentally see if they make the language worse :-)
> > 
> > Adding useless features always makes a product worse. What's your use
> > case for tuple.index?
> 
> Do you not see the gratuituous inconsistency between tuples and lists
> as a useless feature?  What is the use case for keeping it?

When a new feature is requested, the burden of proof is on the requester
to show that it has uses. The use case for not having tuple.index is
that there are no use cases for having it. If that answer sounds absurd,
it is because your question is absurd.

-Carsten
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