Nov. 29, 2022
12:34 a.m.
On 29/11/22 12:51 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
"Sets weren't meant to be deterministic" sounds like a remnant of the old philosophy, where we said the same about dicts -- until they became deterministic without slowing down, and then everybody loved it.
I got the impression that there were some internal language reasons to want stable dicts, e.g. so that the class dict passed to __prepare__ preserves the order in which names are assigned in the class body. Are there any such use cases for stable sets? -- Greg