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[John Lenton]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:41:20AM +0000, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> Op 2005-01-17, Steve Holden schreef <steve at holdenweb.com>:
> > Antoon Pardon wrote:
> > [...]
> >>>"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds". Rules are made 
> >>>to be broken.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Like only use immutables as dictionary keys.
> >> 
> > Fair enough, but don;t go advising newbies to do this.
> 
> How about something like this.
> 
> Because of the extra precautions one has to take when
> using mutables as hash keys, we advise newbies
> to stick with immutable keys until they have gathered
> enough knowledge and experience to adequatly weight
> the pro and cons of a mutable key solution against
> an immutable key solution.

knowledgeable and experienced users know when to ignore the rules.

-- 
John Lenton (john at grulic.org.ar) -- Random fortune:
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gracia.
		-- Erasmo de Rotterdam. (1469-1536). 
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