[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Carsten Haese: > > Adding useless features always makes a product worse. What's your use > > case for tuple.index? > > Ruby is a bit younger than Python, it has shown that few things may be > better done in a different way.
I think the Ruby way is just to add a ton of methods to every class and to give them all aliases as well. Then you let the programmer "monkey patch" those classes in their own code, too. > An advantage of PyPy is that it allows faster and simpler ways to perform > language experiments. So you can > even try things first and judge them later. You can find usercases later. > This may help rejuvenate Python a bit :-) It's virtually a matter of copy and paste to do this with CPython. Here's a patch against the SVN trunk: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1696444&group_id=5470&atid=305470 Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
