alwayssortedlist (was Re: On PEP 322 (ireverse))

[Michael Hudson]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:

> For an always-sorted list, this clearly means: replace the currently
> sixth-lowest item with the value 20.  More generally, a[i] always
> means "the (i+1)-th lowest item" -- referencing it no doubt going
> to be useful much more often than replacing it, and value of i
> different from the extremes (say 0, 1, -1) are going to be rare.
> But, so what?

Oh, yow.  Typing 

    a[5] = 20

and then having 

    a[5] != 20 

is just icky.  Find another notation.

Cheers,
mwh

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