[Python-Dev] Why is nb_inplace_power ternary?
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Feb 10 01:09:50 CET 2007
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Greg Ewing schrieb:
>
>> Might we want to add an in-place version of the 3-arg
>> pow() function one day?
>
> What could the syntax for that be?
It wouldn't be a syntax, just a function, e.g.
ipow(x, n, 10)
> Also, it would break existing __ipow__ implementations
> that only receive two arguments
You could consider them broken already, since the
signature clearly implies that there could be a
third argument. The fact that it's not currently
used is no excuse. :-)
--
Greg
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