Mailman 3 Shouldn't all in-place operations simply return self? - NumPy-Discussion

17 Jan 2013

      Hi,

In a recent thread
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/52772 it was
proposed that .fill(.) should return self as an alternative for a trivial
two-liner.

I'm raising now the question: what if all in-place operations indeed could
return self? How bad this would be? A 'strong' counter argument may be
found at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/038855.html.

But anyway, at least for me. it would be much more straightforward to
implement simple mini dsl's (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language) a much more
straightforward manner.

What do you think?

-eat

P.S. FWIW, if this idea really gains momentum obviously I'm volunteering to
create a PR of it.

Shouldn't all in-place operations simply return self?

eat

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