Feb. 29, 2000
1:11 a.m.
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
(BTW, perhaps the __contains__ changes should be extended to __max__ and __min__? They share many of the same issues.)
Indeed -- but then who do you trust? The first element of the sequence? Is it acceptable for
max(a, b, c, d)
to read as
"a, please tell me which is the maximum among yourself, b, c, and d"
Ping, I hardly think Python is going to ever have multi-methods... Of course, __max__ (just like __add__ now) should (in some theoretical definition of should) be implemented with multi-dispatch. See MAL's suggestion for coercion for pragmatic (though not theoretic) possible workarounds. -- Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>. INTERNET: Learn what you know. Share what you don't.