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Author	lemburg
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, georg.brandl, lemburg, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger
Date	2008-12-09.16:45:27
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
In-reply-to	<[email protected]>

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On 2008-12-09 16:06, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> added the comment: > >> The idea was to have one implementation of the work-around (a>b) - (b<a) >> instead of 10 or so instances of this snippet in the Python stdlib >> and probably a few hundred places in other code. > > But what use-case does it solve, except for making legacy code easier to > port to Py3k? It implements the DRY principle.

On 2008-12-09 16:06, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> added the comment:
> 
>> The idea was to have one implementation of the work-around (a>b) - (b<a)
>> instead of 10 or so instances of this snippet in the Python stdlib
>> and probably a few hundred places in other code.
> 
> But what use-case does it solve, except for making legacy code easier to
> port to Py3k?

It implements the DRY principle.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-12-09 16:45:29	lemburg	set	recipients: + lemburg, brett.cannon, georg.brandl, rhettinger, amaury.forgeotdarc, mark.dickinson, pitrou, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson
2008-12-09 16:45:28	lemburg	link	issue1717 messages
2008-12-09 16:45:27	lemburg	create