Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class....

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Date	2015-01-24 05:03 +1100
Subject	Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class....
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> No disagreement with the 'hack'
> As for "no use case for equal but distinct tokens" - thats a strange
> view given this thread

Look at it this way: A classic enumeration has no use-case for
equal-but-distinct; this thread doesn't disagree with that, because
this thread is not about classic enumerations. In the same way,
integers don't have use-cases for equal-but-distinct either, but in
practice, you can distinguish between exact literals and the results
of computation:

rosuav@sikorsky:~$ cat unique_numbers.py
x = 100000
y = 100000
z = 99999+1
print(x is y, x is z, y is z)
rosuav@sikorsky:~$ python3 unique_numbers.py
True False False

This is still not good code, though. If you really need to distinguish
those, your code is majorly fragile.

ChrisA

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Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Andrew Robinson <andrew3@r3dsolutions.com> - 2015-01-12 17:59 -0800
  Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-13 05:32 +0000
    Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-13 17:13 +1100
    Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-01-13 05:49 -0500
      Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-01-13 13:00 +0200
        Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-13 22:20 +1100
        Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-01-13 11:56 -0700
        Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-14 06:02 +1100
    Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-13 21:56 +1100
    Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Andrew Robinson <andrew3@r3dsolutions.com> - 2015-01-13 16:12 -0800
    Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-01-14 01:31 -0700
    Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-01-14 22:26 -0700
      Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-01-16 22:23 +1300
    Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Andrew Robinson <andrew3@r3dsolutions.com> - 2015-01-14 23:23 -0800
      Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-15 08:41 +0000
        Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Andrew Robinson <andrew3@r3dsolutions.com> - 2015-01-15 17:45 -0800
          Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-16 18:33 +1100
          Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-01-17 00:07 +1300
          Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-16 03:22 -0800
          Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-17 23:27 +1100
        Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-01-16 02:27 +0000
        Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-01-15 22:01 -0700
        Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-16 17:58 +1100
      Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@technologyhighland.invalid> - 2015-01-15 09:54 -0800
        Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Andrew Robinson <andrew3@r3dsolutions.com> - 2015-01-26 15:47 -0800
        Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-01-26 18:50 -0700
    Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-01-15 10:05 -0700
    Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Andrew Robinson <andrew3@r3dsolutions.com> - 2015-01-23 03:46 -0800
      Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-23 07:31 -0800
        Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-01-23 09:50 -0700
          Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-23 09:03 -0800
            Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-24 04:23 +1100
              Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-23 09:29 -0800
            Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-01-23 11:04 -0700
              Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-23 19:13 -0800
              Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-23 19:21 -0800
            Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-24 16:01 +1100
              Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-24 16:43 +1100
          Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-23 09:22 -0800
            Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-24 04:37 +1100
              Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-23 09:45 -0800
                Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-24 05:03 +1100
                Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-01-23 11:13 -0700
      Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-24 19:27 +1100
    Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-23 22:58 +1100
    Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-01-23 12:07 +0000
    Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-01-23 11:17 -0500
    Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-01-23 11:00 -0700

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