On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 07:48:10PM -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:

> >How many beginners do you know who even know what a LRU cache is?
> 
> How many beginners know they want to call a function only once?

More than the number who know about LRU caches.

Ethan, are you objecting to a self-descriptive name because it is too 
confusing for beginners and lru_cache isn't? Because that's the argument 
you seem to be defending.


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Steven
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