[Python-ideas] Smallest/Largest singletons

[George Sakkis]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Scott Dial <
scott+python-ideas at scottdial.com <scott%2Bpython-ideas at scottdial.com>>wrote:

George Sakkis wrote:
> >> Using special objects to be lazy with your algorithm will never be
> >> wise.
> >
> > s/lazy/elegant
>
> To each his own, but your substitution fails to convince me that magic
> values are more readable than using a "valid" flag variable.


So the concept of infinity is a "magic value" and a flag variable is not ? I
bet you find C-like error codes more readable than exceptions too.

George
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