[Patches] In overloading: not special casing strings

[Moshe Zadka]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Thanks.  There's one thing broken in this version: you made the test
> for length==1 return false -- it should raise an exception.  See the
> patches:

Yes. Undocumented feature (which will be documented in a seperate doc
patch once these get in). I have moral problems with raising an exception
as a result of a "test containment" operation. An ADT of container either
contains something, or it does not. Anything else is an optimization.

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> See: this is the exception I'm talking about.

The reference manual sorts of says this behaviour is nasty.

> I'll fix it.

bug-fixing-finger-happy?-ly y'rs, Z.
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