Pre-PEP: reverse iteration methods

[Stephen Horne]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:13:48 GMT, "Andrew Dalke"
<adalke at mindspring.com> wrote:

>> Frankly, I prefer the notion of a method.
>
>While I don't.

To me, the reason to use a method (or property) is simply that most
types cannot be efficiently 'backwardised'. For instance, iterators in
general would have to be buffered into a list an then the resulting
list iterated backwards. That could be useful, but the overhead is
sufficient that I think explicitly writing 'list (x).backward ()'
rather than 'x.backward ()' would be a good thing.

Having a method (or property) explicitly associates it with the
object/class being handled.


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Steve Horne

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