I think that we should prefer tuples to lists when that is appropriate, lists to tuples when that is appropriate. Python has both types for good reasons, I think, and I don't see why we should globally recommend one over the other.
On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 7:21:48 PM UTC-7 Kwankyu Lee wrote: > While we are at > > https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/32200 > > which is really about standardizing types of return values. How about > including recommendation to prefer `tuple` to `list`? Of course this is > only to apply to functions and methods for users. I think it is good to > have a default type so that users do not need to check for any reason > whether the return value is a tuple or a list. > > I dimly remember there was a discussion about list vs tuple long time > ago, but with no conclusion. I don't intend to provoke another discussion. > But if we now have reached a consensus on this matter, then we can add it > to the ticket. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/17671f54-054d-4fa0-a900-e998515552cen%40googlegroups.com.
