[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Lazzaro) writes: > would be a false savings. If a method _is_ universal, especially if > it's symmetric, it might be an OK candidate for a builtin or operator. > And if it isn't universal, I can see (almost) no justification for > wasting an op on it, no matter how common it is.
Bingo. And things like "purge" only apply to arrays and lists, hence... -- "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." (By [EMAIL PROTECTED])