[Python-3000] Drop list.reverse()?

[Greg Ewing]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> When you run reversed(s), the s argument
> can be any Sequence (either mutable or immutable) and the
> return value is an iterator that doesn't copy the whole
> dataset.

If reversed() became a *view* (a mutable one) rather than
an iterator, there might be more of a case for dropping
list.reverse(), although I'm still not sure.

It might still be a good idea to make reversed() a view
(maybe mutable, maybe not).

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