[Python-Dev] PEP 326 now online

[Chermside, Michael]

Josiah Carlson writes:
> I've submitted my latest changes that I believe address the concerns
> brought up since I last emailed the list.
      [...]
> The major change of note: it is no longer a builtin.

Nice work! With this current proposal, you've gotten my vote to a solid
+0. I find your current motivation far more convincing -- although I
don't think this is something *I* would need much, I can see the
advantages to having standard High and Low objects.

The only open issue that I think presents any significant barrier is
the question of where to put them. No answer proposed so far seems
like the "one obvious place", and most have been, well, a bit
peculiar (function attributes; sorting properties of function objects).
Of these, I think using min and max (the functions) is my favorite
solution, judging by the simple metric of what would I be most likely
to remember if I had seen it mentioned in a manual once but hadn't
actually used it for a long time. But Guido seems to find this a bit
"too clever".

-- Michael Chermside


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