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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:33:24 +0100
Subject: Re: from future import pass_function
From: Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole@gmail.com>
To: Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com>
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On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt
<ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> wrote:
> What do you think?
>

I enjoyed the question, but actually I don't think this is a good idea.

1.  If you really needed something like this, you could define it easily.

def do_nothing(*args, **keywords):
   return None

2. If it were a built-in function, you would be able to override it,
and then there would be chaos.

Best,

Nicholas