list.reverse()

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Roy Smith a écrit :
(snip)

> The reasoning goes along the lines of, "reverse in place is an expensive 
> operation, so we don't want to make it too easy for people to do".  At 
> least that's the gist of what I got out of the argument the many times it 
> has come up.

IIRC, it's more along the line of "reverse in place is a *destructive* 
operation, so we don't want to make it too easy for people to forget 
about it".