Feb. 28, 2000
2:57 p.m.
On the other hand, I do think that it might be nice to have that sort of hook in the rich array world...
Really? The min/max functions already do all their looping in C.
Right, but it might make sense to define min() on an array to mean something different than what min-the-builtin could guess from whatever __lt__ returns -- In fact, IIRC, min() on an array which implemented rich comparisons would raise an exception. I don't want to specify the semantics now (arrays are weird sequences), I just appreciate the hook. The semantics would probably depend on the flavor of array one wanted to use.
[I guess you get to worry about the older brother while your wife takes care of the newborn? :-)]
Got it it one. --david