Tuple Comprehension ???

[Axy]

On 21/02/2023 19:11, avi.e.gross at gmail.com wrote:
> In your own code, you may want to either design your own functions, or use them as documented or perhaps create your own wrapper functions that carefully examine what you ask them to do and re-arrange as needed to call the function(s) you want as needed or return their own values or better error messages.  As a silly example, this fails:
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> max(1, "hello")
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> Max expects all arguments to be of compatible types. You could write your own function called charMax() that converts all arguments to be of type str before calling max() or maybe call max(... , key=mycompare) where compare as a function handles this case well.
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> The key point is that you need to adapt yourself to what some function you want to use offers, not expect the language to flip around at this point and start doing it your way and probably breaking many existing programs.
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> Yes, consistency is a good goal. Reality is a better goal.

I don't think overengineering is a good thing. Good design utilizes 
associativity so a person don't get amazed by inconsistency in things 
that expected to be similar.

Axy.