> Obviously once I become convinced that the mutable complex numbers happens > to work for my purposes, there is nothing preventing me from implementing > as an extension in C.
Of course. > Would that put the issue to bed? No particular issue. Kirby said something, you challenged it, I'm putting in my CAD$0.02. You can reimplement python in python if you want (and you wouldn't be the first). > What - pedagogically - do you imagine you are communicating to me by telling > me > that *this* is generally considered better than *that*. Nakedly - pretty > much nothing. Thought I said that--faster, less memory, more readable, y'know, because you asked. > And it would be easier to converse, no doubt,l if we all felt we were > listening to each other. Oh, I mostly listen. Sometimes I stop listening when the thread goes on too long without going anywhere. On rare occasions I jump in. Coming to regret doing that, going back to lurk mode now. > You always seem to be listening with half an ear. Hmm. I wonder which half? > I said in the course of the discussion - maybe 3 times - that I understood > that I was giving > up performance, and that I could understand an objection on that basis, but > for where I > am going - knowing for example that a C extension is always doable - that I > wasn't > going to let that be short-term decisive. Yes, I know, I read that. I'm not questioning that you know this. You asked what problems from a CS viewpoint there would be. I told you. You don't like it, don't ask. > You come back to me explaining to be that I am giving up performance. Which you knew, but you asked. Performance is a nebulous word by itself. I tried to clarify--adding mutable objects is unlikely to save *either* memory *or* speed. Your mileagle may vary, of course. > Kirby understands. I am from New York ;) Yeah, I'm from Tennessee, but I don't speak from there. And I don't use it to justify being confrontational. > You seemed married to Arthur as the desruptive bad guy. Nope, perfectly willing to be shown otherwise. On the other hand, folks have dropped off the list, or threatened to, in part because of your attacks on other posters. Just because I'm de-lurking to point this out doensn't mean I'm the only one who feels this way (although maybe the only one still around, dunno). > I don't buy it, but don't expect to change your mind > either. Damn. I wish you would. I'd really like to have my mind changed on this. I truly would. > Art --Dethe _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
