Guido rethinking removal of cmp from sort method

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Fri Mar 25 06:05:17 EDT 2011


Antoon Pardon, 25.03.2011 10:21:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:49:53PM +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:47:05 +0100, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>>
>>> However since that seems to be a problem for you I will be more
>>> detailed. The original poster didn't ask for cases in which cmp was
>>> necessary, he asked for cases in which not using cmp was cumbersome.
>>
>> I'm the original poster, and that's not what I said. I said:
>>
>> "If anyone has any use-cases for sorting with a comparison function that
>> either can't be written using a key function, or that perform really
>> badly when done so, this would be a good time to speak up."
>>
>> You'll notice that I said nothing about whether writing the code was easy
>> or cumbersome, and nothing about readability.
>
> Well fine. I should have realised the question was just a pretense and that
> there really never was any intention to consider the reactions, because
> the answer is already fixed.

I don't think it is. It's just not as simple as "see, I have an artificial 
use case here, so you *must* put the feature back in the language".

Stefan




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