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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Paul Sokolovsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pmiscml@gmail.com" target="_blank">pmiscml@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br><br>
What happens now borders on technologic surrealism - the CPython, after<br>
many years of persuasion, switched its dict algorithm, rather<br>
inefficient in terms of memory, to something else, less inefficient<br>
(still quite inefficient, taking "no overhead" as the baseline). That<br>
algorithm randomly had another property. Now there's a seemingly<br>
serious talk of letting that property leak into the *language spec*,<br>
despite the fact that there can be unlimited number of dictionary<br>
algorithms, most of them not having that property.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">â</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">I have to agree: I find the elevation of a CPython implementation detail to a language feature âsomewhat hard to comprehend. Maybe it's more to do with the way it's been presented, but this is hardly an enhancement the language has been screaming for for years.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">âPresumably there is little concern that algorithms that rely on this behaviour will be perfectly syntactically conformant with earlier versionsâ but will fail subtly and without explanation? It's a small concern, but a real one - particularly for learners.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Â Steve</div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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