[Python-ideas] An Everything singleton

[Westley Martínez]

Is there a strong use case for this? How did this idea come about?

On Feb 18, 2014 11:08 AM, "Serhiy Storchaka" <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This crazy idea is inspired by a discussing in Python-Dev which should be
here.
>
> Currently we have a None singleton which representing nothing and raises
an exception in almost all operations (except equality, etc). What about
introducing its antonym, an Everything singleton (the name is discussable),
which newer raises an exception in any operation, but returns consistent
value?
>
> >>> Everything + 2
> 2
> >>> Everything < 3
> True
> >>> Everything * 'foo'
> 'foo'
>
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