Eh? Shouldn't foo.list() return the same as list(foo) (a list) and foo.tuple() the same as tuple(foo) (a tuple)?
On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 6:08:51 AM UTC-7, Volker Braun wrote: > > I've said it before: list() should always return a tuple. Yes I know its > called list, but its just an English thing that verb and noun can't be > distinguished. Certainly no excuse to cache mutable data structures. > > On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 2:35:46 PM UTC+2, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> >> On 2016-05-31 14:06, Johan S. R. Nielsen wrote: >> > And that the small >> > penalty in returning a *copy* of the list in each call to list() is a >> > small price to pay for mitigating user errors? >> No. Better use a immutable data structure instead of a list. >> >> -- 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 post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
