On Friday, May 11, 2012 21:02:46 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > On 11-05-2012 20:34, Mehrdad wrote: > > On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 18:25:17 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > >>> Actually, that is a WAT even for somebody coming from C/C++. > >> > >> Really? That's pretty much exactly what I would have expected, and it > >> would > >> really suck if it returned a bool. It's like what you get with find on > >> std::map, only it's a pointer instead of an iterator. > >> > >> - Jonathan M Davis > > > > Again, try to see it from the perspective of a Python user, not a > > C++ user. > > Speaking of which, 'in' on arrays......... > > *hint hint*
Except that it would break the generally expected algoritmic complexity of in, so it'll never happen ( O(n) for arrays, whereas the worst case that would be acceptable would be O(lg n) - e.g. what a binary tree could achieve). - Jonathan M Davis
