[Python-ideas] Automatic total ordering

[Guido van Rossum]

Sure, but let's aim for 3.1.

The goal for 3.0 is stability and getting it released!

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:57 AM, George Sakkis <george.sakkis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now that 3.x fixes the arbitrary object comparison wart and drops (?)
> __cmp__, it seems it's a good time to do something with the missing rich
> comparators gotcha, e.g. given a class that defines __eq__ and __lt__,
> automatically provide the rest missing comparisons. Yes, it can be done with
> a custom metaclass or (in 2.6+) with a class decorator [1] but (a) 99% of
> the time that's what one expects so "explicit is better than implicit"
> doesn't count and (b) a bulitin implementation might well be more efficient.
> There might be arguments why this would be a bad idea but I really can't
> think of any.
>
> George
>
> [1] http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2008_10_04.shtml

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