lambda

Antoon Pardon apardon at forel.vub.ac.be
Mon Jan 17 06:41:20 EST 2005


Op 2005-01-17, Steve Holden schreef <steve at holdenweb.com>:
> Antoon Pardon wrote:
> [...]
>>>"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds". Rules are made 
>>>to be broken.
>> 
>> 
>> Like only use immutables as dictionary keys.
>> 
> Fair enough, but don;t go advising newbies to do this.

How about something like this.

Because of the extra precautions one has to take when
using mutables as hash keys, we advise newbies
to stick with immutable keys until they have gathered
enough knowledge and experience to adequatly weight
the pro and cons of a mutable key solution against
an immutable key solution.

-- 
Antoon Pardon



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