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Thu Oct 16 14:51:57 EDT 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/038830.html

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> *If* we're going to consider this, I would recommend using a different
> method name rather than a keyword argument.  Arguments whose value
> changes the return type present a problem for program analysis tools
> like type checkers (and IMO are also easily overseen by human
> readers).  And, it's easier to write l.sorted() rather than
> l.sort(inline=True).

Let's make explicit: l.copysort()

I'm not a big fan of grammatical suffixes for distinguishing between
similar meanings.
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