[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/nondist/peps pep-0203.txt,1.11,1.12 (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net
Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:16:20 +0200

On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 04:11:31AM -0700, Thomas Wouters wrote:

! [XXX so I am accepting this, but I'm a bit worried about the ! argument coercion. For x+=y, if x supports augmented assignment, ! y should only be cast to x's type, not the other way around!]

Oh, note that I chose not to do any coercion, if x supports the in-place operation. I'm not sure how valuable coercion would be, here, at least not in its current form. (Isn't coercion mostly used by integer types ? And aren't they immutable ? If an in-place method wants to have its argument coerced, it should do so itself, just like with direct method calls.)

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