Question about math.pi is mutable
Ben Finney
ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Sat Nov 7 07:15:32 EST 2015
Bartc <bc at freeuk.com> writes:
> To my mind, Python allows far too much freedom in being able to change
> anything at any time.
You're welcome to that opinion. I don't see you present a reason why it
should affect anyone else's opinion of Python, though.
> Yet Python has to assume 100% of the time that it could have been
> changed. Think of the opportunities for optimising if the probability
> was 0%.
Such a pity that Python is missing all those opportunities for
widespread adoption, by not hewing closer to your preferences.
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Ben Finney
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