reduce to be removed?

[Steve Holden]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
[...]
>> I suppose it's only a matter of time before someone wants to define 
>> dict.__add__ ...
> 
> that's been proposed quite a few times, and always gets stuck when it's 
> time to define the exact semantics for dealing with collisions.  there 
> are simply too many ways to do it, and all of them are can be trivially 
> and efficiently implemented in terms of copy/update or for-in (or, in 
> quite a few cases, by using sets instead of dicts).
> 
But, as we both know, the fact that something can be trivially 
implemented in Python doesn't stop people asking for it to be added as 
native.

oh-no-indeed-ly y'rs  - steve
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