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[steve at lonetwin.net]

On 2013-09-25 17:21, Dhananjay Nene wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Vineet Naik <naikvin at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Dhananjay Nene 
>> <dhananjay.nene at gmail.com>wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Dhananjay Nene
>>> <dhananjay.nene at gmail.com> wrote:
> [..]
>>> 
>>> which just trashed the ordering of an and followed by a plus 
>>> followed by
>>> an and.
>>> 
>> 
>> This is a more serious problem particularly if the dict is required 
>> to be
>> serialized back to xml.
> = = =
> TL;DR. Use domain rather than use cases for exploring data structures
> especially where they can cause a lot of change later. Semantic
> Consistency is important, don't treat it lightly. Impedance mismatch
> can be fragile. If feasible, stay away.
> = = =
> 

Nice one, Dhananjay ! Thanks for spelling out so clearly what feels
instinctively like common sense at times and is just as easy (and 
seductive)
to forget about, at others.


cheers,
- steve

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