
Aug. 4, 2020
12:15 a.m.
On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 08:50:32AM -0000, raymond.hettinger@gmail.com wrote:
Please also consider that we thought about all of this when sample() was first created. The current API is intentional. As you noted, this suggestion was also already rejected on the bug tracker. So, this thread seems like an attempt to second guess that outcome as well as the original design decision. If you're going to do something like that, save it for something important :-)
The difficulty is judging when something is important or not, and that's part of the purpose of posting here :-) -- Steven