A small suggestion for Python

[Michael P. Soulier]

In article <3A5F27F7.30268D9A at erols.com>, Edward C. Jones wrote:
>I have been programming in Python for several years. I still
>occasionally make mistakes with functions (such as sort) that
>return only "None". I suggest that functions like sort should
>return either "Nothing" or nothing. "Nothing" would be exactly
>like "None" except it can't be assigned. Whether "Nothing" or
>nothing is used, the statement "x= y.sort()" would raise a
>run-time Exception.

    Or perhaps some kind of pragma to enable this behaviour?

    Mike

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