Re: [Numpy-discussion] Release of 1.0b5 this weekend

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Tim Hochberg apparently wrote:=20
> -0.5 from me if what we're talking about here is having=20
> mutating methods return self rather than None. Chaining=20
> stuff is pretty, but having methods that mutate self and=20
> return self looks like a source of elusive bugs to me.=20

I believe this reasoning was the basis of sort (method,=20
returns None) and sorted (function, returns new object)
in Python. =20

I believe that was a long and divisive
discussion ...

Cheers,
Alan Isaac