[Python-3000-checkins] r45652 - in python/branches/p3yk

[Neil Schemenauer]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:33:34AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Have you ever encountered that use case in practice? (That's what I
> meant by YAGNI. :-)

Yes, I know what YAGNI means.  The example that immediately comes to
mind is ZODB and Durus.  They use 8-byte binary strings to represent
object IDs.  Memory efficiency is important.

Another example would be using a SHA-1 hash as a key.  I don't
recall if I have written such code but message digests are so common
I don't think you can call YAGNI.

  Neil