Add a "key" parameter to bisect* functions?

Miki Tebeka miki.tebeka at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 13:24:42 EDT 2012


> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the reason for this absence is that people could 
> think that doing repeated bisects using keys would be fast, even though keys 
> has to be recomputed?
I think the main point Raymond had was:
    If we added key= to bisect, it would encourage bad design and steer
    people after from better solutions.

But you need to ask him :)



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