[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/nondist/peps pep-0203.txt,1.11,1.12

[Guido van Rossum]

> Oh, note that I chose not to do *any* coercion, if x supports the in-place
> operation. I'm not sure how valuable coercion would be, here, at least not
> in its current form. (Isn't coercion mostly used by integer types ? And
> aren't they immutable ? If an in-place method wants to have its argument
> coerced, it should do so itself, just like with direct method calls.)

All agreed!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)