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Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Dec 31 19:21:05 EST 2022


On 1/01/23 11:36 am, avi.e.gross at gmail.com wrote:
> And, of course, we had the philosophical question of why the feature was
> designed to not return anything ... rather than return the changed
> object.

My understanding is that Guido designed it that way to keep a
clear separation between mutating and non-mutating methods, and
to help catch mistakes resulting from mixing them up.

-- 
Greg


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