Re: lambda

From: Steve Holden (steve_at_holdenweb.com)
Date: 01/17/05 

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:21:16 -0500

Antoon Pardon wrote:

> Op 2005-01-17, Steve Holden schreef <steve@holdenweb.com>:
>
>>Antoon Pardon wrote:
>>[...]
>>
>>>>"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds". Rules are made
>>>>to be broken.
>>>
>>>
>>>Like only use immutables as dictionary keys.
>>>
>>
>>Fair enough, but don;t go advising newbies to do this.
>
>
> How about something like this.
>
> Because of the extra precautions one has to take when
> using mutables as hash keys, we advise newbies
> to stick with immutable keys until they have gathered
> enough knowledge and experience to adequatly weight
> the pro and cons of a mutable key solution against
> an immutable key solution.
>
There you go with the minutiae again. How about:

"Don't use mutables as hash keys"?

regards
  Steve 

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